Re: Giving an application a window icon in a sensible way
"Twisted" <twisted0n3@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Oliver Wong wrote:
Assuming you're using Windows (the hint was the mention of WinAmp),
you
can right click on a file and choose "properties" to see a window which
will
display what the OS thinks the type of the file is, as well as what
program
will open it.
That's hardly helpful when the file extension appears in a URL in a
usenet posting. I'd have to have already downloaded the
potentially-useless file *first*, just to discover one piece of
information to use towards determining whether it would be a waste of
time to download it!
Alternatively, you could create an empty text file, by right clicking on
an empty region of a folder or the desktop, and selecting "New -> Text
file", and then changing the extension from "txt" to whatever extension it
is you wish to investigate. This will reveal what your computer thinks that
file extension is.
Alternatively, you could google for the file extension. That'll reveal
what the extension "really" is (or what some web site claims that file
extension is), as opposed to what your computer thinks it is.
Usually the two information are in agreement with each other, but not
always. This is helpful when multiple programs decide to use the same file
extension, and your computer seems to be assuming the wrong one.
If that's too slow for you, you can also right click on the file, and
highlight the "Open With..." menu, in which case a pop-up submenu will
appear, listing the programs known to be able to open this file. In my
case,
it shows "Adobe Reader 7.0" and "Firefox".
For which file? .jnlp?
No, PDF. I was using the same example as before.
- Oliver