I sometimes miss to look at a link destination before I click on the link in question. That is usually not a problem unless it does not point to a website but a file. Depending on the configuration, this may open or execute the file right away on the computer, or display a prompt. PDF [...]

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Portable software per definition does not store data on the operating system, only in its program folder. That’s a problem when it comes to launching files with portable software, as default program information are stored in the Windows Registry. Some users break the rule and assign file extensions to portable applications via Windows’ options. Others [...]

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Windows 7 users who have been working under Windows XP previously may have noticed that the way file extensions are managed have changed in the new operating system. Users who want to assign a program to a file extension need to open the Windows Control Panel, click on Default Programs and there on associate a [...]

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Every computer user will eventually encounter files that cannot be opened with the programs installed on the computer system. Experienced users might try to open those files in a basic text editor or perform a search on the Internet to find a program that can open files with those extensions. Another possibility is the Open [...]

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Windows is storing information about file extensions and the actions that can be triggered when right-clicking the files or folders in Windows. A right-click on a spreadsheet file would for example reveal options to open the file in Microsoft Office or Open Office. That might include actions added by applications that are not used by [...]

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Windows Explorer does not provide a way to sort files by their file extension. The only way that resembles that sorting filter would be to filter by type. That however has not the same effect. Take files with the file extensions wav and mp3 and sort them by type. You will notice that they will [...]

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Users are usually puzzled for a moment if they encounter a file type that they never heard about before and that none of their installed applications seems to be able to load properly. A search on the Internet is probably the main way to identify a file extension and the application it can be opened [...]

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