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Dealing with an unknown file type

Dealing with an unknown file type

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Dealing with an unknown file type

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- [Instructor] Most of the time, you double-click a file icon, and a program starts, it's magically. Except for those times you double-click on an icon, and this happens. How do you want to open this file? My advice, press the Escape key. Don't even bother trying, unless you really, really know what program it takes to open this file, and this is, for example, a plain text file, and you can properly chose the program from the list, don't even bother, press Escape. Files in Windows are associated with programs which allows them to open in that given program when you double-click the file's icon. This association is based on the file name extension, that's the last part of a file name, a period, followed by up to four characters. Those four characters are associated with a file type, say, a graphics file or a text file, which are further associated with a specific program, designed to open the file. When Windows…

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