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:
First of all, when you say an "unfamiliar file extension", do you
mean
unfamiliar to you, or unfamiliar to the OS on your computer?
Unfamiliar to me; winamp for example has registered all kinds of
obscure file extensions I've otherwise never heard of. If I see one of
those later, I can only go by what I know to decide whether to not
bother trying to click on it; to go by what winamp knows would require
clicking on it, and doing so to decide whether to click on it is
obviously moronic.
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. For example, when I do this on a PDF file, it gives me "Type
of file: Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Document" and "Opens with: Adobe Reader 7.0".
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".
- Oliver