qIV v2.250.0.316

Folder-tree navigation, a reorganised settings menu, and a set of tools for keeping your folder history clean.

Single portable executable, still under 10 MB. No installer, no runtime to install first, no background service, nothing phoned home.

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Walk the folder tree from the keyboard

Alt + the arrow keys now move through folders the way the arrow keys move through images:

Key	Goes
Alt + ↑	up to the parent folder
Alt + ↓	down into the first subfolder
Alt + ← / →	across to the previous / next sibling folder

Each step names where it landed — ➡ 8/20 "13_Music" — so a sideways walk through twenty folders never leaves you guessing which one you are in. Wrapping at the ends is a tray setting. Landing somewhere empty or missing is explained on screen rather than looking like a key that did nothing.

Settings › History

Everything about the folder history now lives in one submenu instead of being scattered through the settings list.

Recording

• Record Folders I Visit — the master switch. Off stops new folders reaching both the list and qivHistory.txt, without affecting navigation.
• Record Only Folders With Images (new default: on) — folders holding no images are not recorded. Walking the folder tree lands you in every child of a parent, images or not; this keeps those out of the list so what remains is places you actually looked at pictures.

Housekeeping — each asks first, and backs up the file before touching it:

• Remove Invalid Folders — drops rows that are not a usable path, point somewhere that no longer exists, or hold no images.
• Remove Duplicates — collapses repeats, keeping the most recent.
• Clear History, Clear Favorites, Clear History and Favorites — each names what survives it.
• Open History File — straight to qivHistory.txt in Explorer.

Limits — the labels now say which question each one answers: Rows Shown in Panel and Favorite Rows Shown in Panel are display only, while Favorites You Can Add and Folders Saved to File bound what is stored.

Backup & Export

A new top-level menu collecting every operation that moves data on and off the disk, instead of having them split between the Settings menu and a Backup menu.

• Export / Import Settings — as before
• Backup Logs — zips the whole logs folder to wherever you choose. Handy for a bug report
• Backup / Restore TCP/IP Config — qivLocalServer.ini, qivRemoteServers.ini and qivRemoteServerBlacklist.ini. None of these live in the registry, so the settings export never covered them. Restore asks per file before replacing one that exists
• Backup / Restore History & Favorites — as before

Also new

• Full Path in the overlay — the bottom-left slot can show the whole path (📂 D:\Pics\Summer) instead of just the folder name (📁 Summer).
• A searchable shortcut reference on the website, generated from the app's own help window so the two cannot drift apart.

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Fixed

• The folder walk did nothing on some drives. If a volume had picked up the SYSTEM attribute on its top-level folders — an old attrib +s, or a sync tool — the subfolder filter dropped every one of them, so Alt + ← / → reported "No further folder in that direction" in a folder with twenty siblings beside it. The filter now tests only the HIDDEN attribute, which still excludes $RECYCLE.BIN and System Volume Information.
• Base64 decode table race. The lookup table used by the remote protocol could be built by two threads at once.
• Empty-query handling in Find now matches what the code actually guarantees.
• Several actions that could fail silently now say what happened, including the "no further folder" message, which reports the position and count it refused on.

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qIV Remote for Android

The desktop is one half. qIV Remote turns a phone or tablet into a remote control, a live preview, and a photo frame that sends pictures to any screen running qIV.

Free, and it stays usable free: one saved desktop, the Simple remote, and every security feature included. No ads at all — the same "no account, no cloud, no analytics, no advertising" rule the desktop follows.

A one-time unlock (about USD 2, no subscription, no account) adds unlimited saved desktops, the Advanced and Fullscreen screens, phone-to-desktop streaming and save-to-gallery.

Not sure? A built-in demo mode runs the entire app with no desktop at all, and never opens a network socket.

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Download

QuickImageViewer.exe below — single file, statically linked, nothing else needed.

Verify the SHA-256 against the checksum in the assets if you like.