I Need a Safe (Freeware ?) Photo Viewer with Random Shuffle for Windows 11

50 year high school reunion coming up and I need to create a slideshow. I personally have almost 300 photos plus however more others will have to offer. Windows Photos doesn't have a random shuffle feature anymore. Anybody know of a safe (free ?) 3rd party photo viewer that has random shuffle? I don't think that I need any other bells and whistles. We are such a cool class that we had reunions every 5 years with a class size of over 700. 

Check out ACDSee. I used to use it all the time on Windows boxes. It'll definitely do slideshows, I don't recall if it'll do random. But it's pretty easy for you to find out.

https://www.acdsee.com/en/products/acdsee-free/

According to the documentation, it does offer shuffle on the slideshow.

https://help.acdsystems.com/en/acdsee-free-2/Content/1Topics/Manage_mode/PublishingSharing/IDDH_SLIDESHOW_PROPERTIES.htm?Highlight=slideshow

Keith Tanner said:

Check out ACDSee. I used to use it all the time on Windows boxes. It'll definitely do slideshows, I don't recall if it'll do random. But it's pretty easy for you to find out.

https://www.acdsee.com/en/products/acdsee-free/

Yup. I used to use it as the default viewer for every computer I had.

In reply to Keith Tanner :

Thanks a million! I will give it a try. 

Irfanview is what I've been using for that sort of thing for quite a while.

I've been using FastStone image viewer and it's been good for quick image review/etc.

Plus one for irfanview. Good for this kinda of thing, but packs a ton of extra functionality if you need it or know how to use it. I stick to auto adjust and slide shows, but it's really capable. 

Irfanview is awesome. Like, can't believe it's a free program awesome. 

Thanks everyone. It took me some 2 hours to set up the ACDSee program, put all of my photos into one folder, delete the rejects, and start a slideshow. Seems to work just fine, but will have to see what happens if I make a 1000 photo slideshow. I will check out the other photo viewers after I take a nap. 

Makes me wonder why Microsoft made an barely ok photo viewing program into an awful one along with Paint and Paint 3D.

Another Plus 1 for IrfanView. I have been using it for nearly 30 years and it does everything a viewer/basic editor needs to.

It does have the capability to write out a slideshow to a single executable file, so you can run it on any machine, even if IrfanView is not installed.

I have even requested some features of the owner and he was quite pleasant to converse with.