If you can't open a file on your computer, don't give up right away. These tricks will give you a fighting chance of accessing or recovering its contents.

Applications stop launching by opening a file There may be a situation in Snow Leopard where opening a file either in the Finder or in the Dock will not open them in the default application.

Open PDF File on Windows Once you've decided on a native or alternative PDF reader to open your file and changed your Windows settings, locate the PDF file in File Explorer.

Red Eye Rose received a file with a strange extension. She doesn't know into what program she should load it. Neither does Windows.

How to Open a RAR File Without WinRAR. Since many email providers impose a file size limit on email attachments, the RAR format is ideal if you want to compress and send multiple large files ...

Learn how to open a WPS format file on Windows 11/10 computer. You can open Microsoft Works WPS file using free tools covered in this post.

CRDOWNLOAD files are temporary files created by Chrome when you download a file from any Chromium-based browser. Learn how to open it.

When you double-click a file on your Mac, the operating system will automatically open the file using the program assigned to that type of file. It is possible, though, to open the file using ...

Though DAT files, which house data as the shortened name implies, are usually best left alone, here's how you can open them.

BearPup sometimes wants to open a file in one program, and other times open it in another. He asked the Answer Line forum for an easy way to do this.