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Is there any way to know what program to use to open a file if the file is missing its file extension?
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∙ 12y ago
I would recommend you to search the file format on Google, this will give you an idea what people can be used to open the file.
Here are just some of the files and what softwares should be installed for the file to work:
.txt = notepad
.doc = Microsoft Word
.mdb = Microsoft Access
.xls = Microsoft Excel
.ppt = Microsoft Power point
.html (also .htm) = Web page browser or editor
.PDF = A PDF viewer like Adobe Reader
These are only a little amount of file formats, there are a huge range of file formats which will open in several softwares.
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How do you know if the program you downloaded is a program or not?
.exe (extension of the file name)
If in Windows the choose Program wizard accessed by right clicking a file does not open but instead the file opens in notepad how do you restore the choose program wizard?
I don't know if you can restore the "Opens With" wizard, but you can change the program that opens files of that extension. Right-click on the file and select "Properties". The properties window will show what program opens that extension, and allow you to change it.
When you double click on a word document Word opens How does the computer know how to do this?
The computer looks at the file extension and based on the set up uses the appropriate program to open the file. In this case the extension is .doc or .docx, so it uses Word. If it doesn't know what program it should use, it will ask you to select the appropriate program. It will also give you the option to make that the default next time it sees that extension.
What is the part of file name that helps the computer know what program to use to open a file?
It doesn't use any part of the file. It gets the extension (the part after the dot) of the file name, and looks that up in the registry to see what program should be used to open, for example, a .doc file.
What are the three or four characters right of the period in a file name where the file can be hidden or displayed?
That is the file extension. Each file has this extension to tell the system what to do with the file. For example, a program has .exe at the end. This means that it is an executable file, so the system will launch it as a standard executable. A document has .doc or .docx. The system checks file association when you run it, and tells whatever program is set to handle documents to open that file. If you have MS Word, then it will open the file. If you use Open Office, then that program will open it. If you change the extension, then a different program will try to open the file. For example, changing a .jpg to a .txt will open notepad. However, the file is not actually plain text, so you will see many pages of gibberish, since notepad doesn't really know what to do with the image file.
What is the file extension for a flash file?
i know its .fla
What is an unsupported file type?
Unsupported file types are file extensions that Windows does not know what to do with. This means that there is no program installed on the computer associated with a particular file type. To open an unsupported file type you must first install the program that the file uses to work with it.
When java uses compiler?
What i know is java we will use compiler when it want to get class file(file with .class extension) from java file(file with .java extension).
How do you know what kind of a program you should use to open a document?
It depends on the type of document, if it's a Microsoft word document it will have a file extension of .doc if it's a adobe acrobat document it'll have an extension of .pdf, at any rate you can Google the extension and it will tell you what kind of program created it, hope it helps. Karp.
What does valid extension mean?
Computer files have extensions. These are the part of the filename after the dot (the period). They are used to provide information about the file. Microsoft document files have a .doc extension. Text files are .txt. One kind of picture file is .jpg These extensions let programs know if the file will work with them. If you try to put a file in a program that is unable to use/read/understand the file it may show a message saying, "This is not a valid extension," meaning I don't understand this kind of file.
How do you open SPS files?
One program that saves files with this extensions is the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS,) but there are other programs that use this extension as well. See related links for details. d added You will need to associate the file with the program which created it, if you do not know what program created it you will need to do a search on your system for *.sps (assuming that the file extension is sps if not just search for sps). The folders and programs which are associated with that file should be present in the list that is returned. Once you know what program the file is created by then you need to navigate to the file and right click and select 'open with' then select that program from the list. The other thing you could do is navigate to the the file and right click on it then select 'properties' then click through the tabs to find out what company the file is associated with. There may be a link there that you can click on to get to that company if not search the net to find it and look on their site for a program to open the file with.<-these are assuming you are using a windows based operating system -
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