There is also JPEG View which is really fast and simple image viewer for windows https://github.com/sylikc/jpegview) It is very fast, specially noticeable on very large images. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

JPEGView - lightweight image viewer for Windows. ShareX - screen capture tool with other nice features. Source: almost 2 years ago

JPEGView should be close enough to what you want. It's very light-weight. Source: almost 2 years ago

JPEGView is great, lightweight and opens stuff fast https://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegview/. Source: about 2 years ago

JPEGView - Lean and fast image viewer with minimal GUI. Source: about 2 years ago

You could also use the privacy tool MAT 2. It is also available as a webapp (hosted by Systemli), although this may not be the best solution depending on your use case. Source: about 1 year ago

Metadata Cleaner which makes use of Mat2. Source: about 1 year ago

Otherwise you're maybe better off copying the files first and sanitising them before you create the tar. Maybe something like MAT can help here or you could write a script that performs some preset actions to remove or replace any metadata you don't want the files to have before you create the archive. Source: over 1 year ago

Here is a tool that can be used to strip metadata from images and other files: https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

You can use https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2 to remove metadata of commonly file format. Source: about 2 years ago