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+1, as I said originally.
The current ACDSee Pro 5 product is only $56, which is hardly outrageous.
There is also a free trial, so you can see for yourself.
It has terrific camera-friendly features as well, showing all/selected the EXIF data very nicely, etc.
The current Pro version does NOT look like Win98. It has the sleek Win7-Aero-look (conforming to your Win7 color theme) dark skin, kind of like the way Photoshop CS6 now also has that dark skin.
ACDSee's "photo editing" capabilities are the "bloat" that I don't care about, but they're certainly useful if you want to use them. I only use ACDSee (old v4/v5 from the early 2000's) for image viewing. And I occasionally use the latest ACDSee Pro 5 when I'm dealing with images from digital cameras.