Windows 7 - image conversion

can someone please help me to suggest a program to convert a jpg file to a vector image

Ever think of googling "convert jpg to vector"?

I use this for my research, it views and converts pretty much any image type. IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide

Zigzag's post is good, but I'll just this link.

Vector Magic Precision Bitmap To Vector Conversion Online Online converter

And, off course this result is found by googling: jpg to vector converter.

This may be of help, it's free and works very well,

Paint.NET Documentation

Unfortunately Infranview or paint.net won't be able to convert any bitmap to a vector. Although Bitmaps and vectors are "images" they are totally different from each other. understanding the difference between bitmaps & vectors

Vector Magic Precision seems to do a pretty good job but it only allows you to do 2 free conversions and you have to sign up to download the results.

If you are looking for a program that converts bitmaps to vectors then you will proberly need a Vector based program like "Adobe illustrator", "CorelDraw" or "Serif DrawPlus" (trial versions are obtainable from the relative websites)