Open & View Any File With Universal Viewer [Windows]

File viewers are these days abundantly available, with many great solutions offering a wide range of functions. Perhaps one of the most popular ones out there is Total Commander Lister, which offers a wide variety of plugins and file type support. Today, we bring you something better, with the name of Universal Viewer.

Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer with wide range of formats supported, including common ones like text, binary, unicode, jpeg, gif, png, and then not so common ones like doc, docx, xlsx, odt, pdf etc.

The software contains view modes for files under nine different categories:

Text
Binary (fixed length)
Hex
Image/Multimedia
Internet/Office
Unicode
Plugins
RTF/UTF-8
MS Office

The options available are plentiful, with full control over the files being viewed in terms of their manageability. Furthermore, the customizations and tweaking offered are really advanced. The whole Options menu is dedicated for this purpose.

The viewers own configuration is done separate from plugins configuration.

Configuration options are available for the interface, file types, text, multimedia, shortcuts, history and certain miscellaneous settings.

One interesting feature of Universal Viewer is its context-menu integration with Windows. Since the application is fully Unicode-compatible, it gets displayed in Windows’ context menu right after installation, so you can call up the viewer from anywhere in the Windows environment.