Universal Viewer is a light weight unique all-in-one file viewer which you can use to view many file formats. You can use it to view text files, images, multimedia, Internet file (files supported by IE) and RTF files. Below is file types which you can open in Universal Viewer.

Image file types which you can open are bmp, ico, wmf, emf, jpg, jpeg, jpe, jfif, png, gif, rle, dib, tga, tif, tiff, psd, fax, eps, icb, win, vst, vda, pcx, pcc, rpf, rla, sgi, rgba, rgb, bw, pdd, ppm, pgm, pbm, cel, pic, pcd, cut, pal, psp, jp2, jpc, pnm, ras, mis, ani, cur.

Multimedia files which you can open are of avi, mpg, mpeg, mpe, mpv, mp3, mp2, mp1, m1v, m2v, mpv2, mp2v, mpa, m1a, m2a, asf, lsf, lsx, ivf, wav, mid, midi, rmi, kar, aif, aifc, aiff, au, snd, mov, qt, 3gp, 3gp2, 3g2, 3gpp, ra, rm, ram, rmvb, rpm, rt, rp, smi, smil, roq, asx, m3u, pls, wvx, wax, wmx, wmv, wma, wmp, wm, cda, ac3, dts, vob, ifo, d2v, fli, flc, flic, mka, mkv, ts, tp, tpr, pva, aac, mp4, ogm, ogg, divx, vp6, m4a, m4b, vqf, ape, mpc, flac, flv, dvr-ms file types.

File types related to programming and coding like htm, html, xml, xsl, mht, pdf, swf, xps, doc, dot, xls, xlt, pot, pps, ppz, ppt, wbk, wps, csv, shtml, xhtml, shtm, stm, php, php2, php3, asp, pl, vrml, plg, htt, htx, odt, ods, odp, odg, odf, odb, odm, ott, oth, ots, otg, otp, sxw, sxc, sxg, sxi, sxd, sxm, stw, stc, std, sti can also be open in Universal Viewer.

Supported text formats are c, cpp, h, hpp, pas, dpr.

Many files can be run by default installation. But there are some file formats which are not directly supported and you have to install Lister plugins for those file formats e.g. you need MS Office plugin to view .doc files. In case, if you cannot run a particular file, you can find respective plugin HERE. Below is a list of most of the plugins available for Universal Viewer.

Office files viewers
* Office - MS Word, Excel, Write documents (DOC, XLS, WRI)
* OpenOffice.org HTML Viewer - OpenOffice.org and MS Word 2007 documents (ODT, SXW SXC, SXD, DOCX)
* OpenOffice.org Simple Viewer - OpenOffice.org documents (ODT, ODS, ODP, ODG, SXW, SXC, SXI, SXD ...)
* Office2007 - MS Office 2007 documents (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX)
* ListDoc - MS Word documents (DOC)
* Excellence - MS Excel documents (XLS)
* PDFView - Adobe Acrobat documents (PDF)

Graphic viewers
* Imagine - All major graphic formats (JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, TGA ...)
* SGViewer - All major graphic formats (JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, TGA ...)
* ICLView - Icon files (ICO, ICL, EXE, DLL ...)
* FlashView - Flash clips (SWF)
* SWF Lister - Flash clips (SWF, FLV)
* 2D CAD View - Vector graphics: AutoCAD etc (DXF, DWG, HPGL, SVG, CGM ...)

Text editors with syntax highlighting
* SynPlus
* Syn

Font viewers
* TTFViewer - TrueType fonts (TTF)
* Font - All major font formats (TTF, TTC, OTF, FON, PFM)

Miscellaneous viewers
* xBaseView - All major database formats (DBF, DB, MDB, MDF, XLS, CSV ...)
* Wise Tracker - Mod music formats (MOD, S3M, IT, XM ...)
* LinkInfo - Windows link files (LNK)
* FileInfo - Applications and DLLs (EXE, DLL, SCR ...)
* PE Viewer - Applications and DLLs (EXE, DLL, SCR ...)
* AnyTag - Audio clips (AAC, APE, FLAC, MP3, MP4, MPC, OFR, OGG, WMA ...)
* TxQuickView - Multi-purpose: images, media, internet, executables, fonts (AVI, MPG, MP3, RA, RM, MOV, HTML, EXE, DLL, TTF ...)
* NFO Viewer - Small text files (NFO, DIZ)

Click Here to go to Universal Viewer home page. Remember! paid one is out of topic. All above can be done in free version, too.