How to Decipher the Right Application to View an Unknown File Type on Windows Vista

With so many file extensions out there nowadays, its completely possible, that a few might not have a representable program existent on the 'Open With' dialog box. If this is the case, this article will be for you. Navigate to the proper...

Method 1 of 2:

Method One: Look for the Appropriate Program link

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Look and click the the link labelled "Look for the appropriate program on the Web" underneath the box that contains all the programs. This will open up a website.
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Look for an area on the page, labelled "Software or information available at". This is the list of programs, that area able to effectively open this file type.
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Go back to the "Open-With" dialog box, and program in the file executable link to the software that already should be existing on your computer.

Method 2 of 2:

Method Two: No Labelled Section/Area

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Click the "Search the web" link. It will take you to a Bing search page with its search term default set to "file extension (3-digit file extension)". Just one example would be "file extension doc" but doc could have been set to most any other type of file.
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Look for a result from "Fileinfo.com". They are pretty accurate as to the programs that can open the file.
1. If you were to do this manually on a web search page such as Bing or Google, type the extension code followed by the phrase "site:FileInfo.com". However, this requires slightly more knowledge of how search pages work with some websites. (I.e. DOC file information can be found by typing "DOC site:FileInfo.com" into the search box of the search page, which narrows results down to stuff from FileInfo.com)
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Go back to the "Open-with" dialog box, and program in the file executable link to the software that already should be existing on your computer.