Have a file that you don’t know how to open?
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Did you get a file from someone and you don’t have a program that can open it? Here’s a website that you can use to find what programs can open the file – openwith.org.
What is great about the program is that it will give you free programs that you can use to open files.
Open With Home Page
When you go to the website, put in the file extension in the search text box (i.e. the letters after the last period), for example, for the file tutorial.docx, enter .docx (without the period).
Docx List
A list of viewers will be shown, click on one of the links and you will be taken to a page that will have a little more information and a download link.
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Reprinted from “My view of technology”
Author: Bruce Ganek (5 Articles)
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Cool. When I download something from Torrents, I find lot of mysterious files that I couldn’t open. I guess this website would help me. Thanks for the share.
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You are very welcome!
Sometimes I also got something like this….Then I tried one by one to open the file… =)
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Good website, sadly doesn’t tell how to open an PM5 file extension :| Even google fails to provide free viewer or reader to open .pm5 :/
Good thing, it did show up .OGG extension info :)
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Thanks for the feedback.
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This really solved my problem in opening a file with unknown extension..
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Glad it helped!
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This solved my problem too! I had been searching for how to open a file and wasn’t successful till today, but I am now! Thanks to you!
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Excellent, glad I was able to help!
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Wow! This is something I had been looking for since long. Hope, I won’t have to delete the files anymore, just because I didn’t figure out how to open it. Thanks Bruce :)
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No problem, I’m glad to help!
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Cool Man !! Thanks for sharing, finding such type of application from long time :)
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My pleasure, glad to hear from you.
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I know this site very well but it doesnot tell us wat software is required to open the file..
If they suggest the software name along with extension..it will be very helpfull for all of us
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Oh whenever I come across a file extension that I’m not familiar with, I just Google it. It’s good to know there is a site out there that’s dedicated for this kind of information. Great share :)