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| Have you ever received a file from the friend with expansion which you did not recognise. Or you loaded a file from a website and could not get access to a file? Instead you have reached, windows ' the message statement cannot open this file '. What do you do? |
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The friend sends by e-mail to you a file, and it will not open. Or probably you loaded a file from a website and cannot get access to it. Instead you have reached, erroneous windows ' the message statement cannot open this file '. That what strange expansion of a file and why windows will not open it?
If you cannot open a file, it can be, because you do not have program which is capable to opening of that type of a file. Often it is type of the software which is necessary, instead of the specific program. Например.txt expansion - a text file. It means, that you require the editor of the text to open a file, but it should not be the notebook.
A. Expansion of the doctor - a file of the document also can be open on the majority of word-processors. A. jpg или.gif expansion - a graphic file which can be open by graphic spectators. As a rule it what program while you try открыть.doc with a word-processor и.jpg with the graphic spectator has no the value.
Some programs are interchangeable, but they - the few. You can открыть.txt a file in a word the processor, but you cannot открыть.doc expansion in the editor of the text. While you do not have very clear understanding of expansions of a file, it is better to use the most general programs to avoid the disorder and erroneous messages, saying to you, that the file cannot be opened.
Detection and Change of Associations of the File
In Windows if you wish to learn that opens certain type of a file, go to Researcher Windows (a key of windows, and ' E ' on your keyboard - a fast way), choose ' Tools ' on the main bar of the menu and press ' Variants of the Folder from decrease downwards the menu. Therefrom choose ' File Types, and it will open to show all types of a file on your computer.
Press one of expansions of a file which is three letters which follows a point in the end of a file name. Under details of a file it will show a file with its own image, file expansion, and will explain, what program will open a file. If there is no program listed to open a file, can happen so, that to you did not instal the necessary program on your computer, or you should edit a file and force it to open the correct program.
Sometimes at you will be more than one of certain type of the program, for example, I have two word-processors on my personal computer. Other times you could not list the program by default to open specific type of expansion of a file. Anyway, there can be times which you would like to change, what program will open specific type of a file.
Change of Associations of the File (Win XP),
By default, Windows hides expansions of a name of a file for known types of a file. To make changes, you wish to force at first their nobility visible expansions of type of a file. To make it goes to Researcher Windows as you, has made above and choose ' Tools ' from a menu bar, click ' Variants of the Folder and then choose ' Representation ' the account in an open dialogue window. From the list of the variants clear ', Hide expansions for a known tag of types of a file.
Now, when you in a condition to see file associations, you can change, what program will open certain types of a file. Find a file with the expansion which association you wish to change and Correct click on that file.
From decrease downwards menu click, ' Opened With '. The dialogue window opens with the list of programs which you have established on the computer. Click the program, that you wish to open a file. If the program which you search, is not listed there, click ' Consider ' to define a site of the program which you want.
At the basis ' Open With ' a dialogue window - a tag, which speaks ' Always use the selected program to open this kind of a file '. If it is the program, you wish to use each time to open file type, to check up this box before nazhimaniem OK.
The file will automatically open now in the program which you have chosen while you have chosen the program of correct type. More low some general expansions of a file and the program which will open these files.
Расширение.txt Will open the editor of the text, love, Edit the Keyboard or Text Keyboard. The editor of text Windows by default - the Notebook.
Расширение.doc Will open a word-processor, as Microsoft Word or OpenOfficeWrite.
.zip или.tar expansion will open the program of the postal index, such as WinZip or the 7-postal index.
Расширение.pdf Will open Reader Adobe Acrobat.
.jpeg.bmp.gif expansions are images and can be opened in the graphic spectator. Irfanview - the program of the Free software which is big to consider all types of images and can be loaded in www.irfanview.com.
Расширение.wav: the Wave file - the sound format of a file created Microsoft, also will open in the Player of mass-media Windows.
Where to Find it is More than Information Concerning file Expansions
FILExt in http://filext.com is a database of expansions of a file and various programs which use them. If you are doubtful how to open a file, you can make search here a file and study, what programs will open a file. Some files are used according to repeated programs, and to you, possibly, it is necessary to dig a little further. You can find the help in detection of the necessary information In the FILE.
In www.bton.com/tb17/formats.html and www.wotsit.org you can search for file expansion in alphabetic order, and it will give you an explanation of what programs in a condition to open that specific file. The list on these sites is rather extensive.
In summary if you cannot open a file on the pc, to you, possibly, it is necessary to find program expansion on a network which will help you to consider it. Or to you, possibly, only it is necessary to change the program by default, thus it will open properly. Using the websites mentioned above you, will have a stock of the information, which will help you to define that you should make or put in order to consider and work with various types of a file. |
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