Showing posts with label WINDOWS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WINDOWS. Show all posts

Sunday, 4 August 2013

View any Unknown File Extension with Windows File Viewer Free Program for Windows PC

  • Sometimes you find it difficult to open few unknown file formats with some unknown extensions.
  • Or sometimes you might not have a specific software installed on your PC like Microsoft Office of Adobe Photoshop to open some file and view it.
  • If you are facing any of the above issue then the below listed software program will solve your issue.
Windows File Viewer is a simple program which is available for free that helps you to view any file with almost 100+ different file extensions.This make your job easier to open files with some strange formats because every PC might not be having all basic software programs installed.

What is File Viewer?

File Viewer is a universal file opener that allows you to open any file on your Windows PC. Simply drag and drop any file or folder onto the application icon or program window. File Viewer can open PDFs, word processing documents, spreadsheets, and many other common file types in their native view. It also can play dozens of audio and video file formats.
If you have a unknown file, File Viewer can open it! In the rare case that File Viewer does not natively support the file format, you can still view the contents of any file in text or hexadecimal view.

Steps to Get Started Using Windows File Viewer:

  • First go to Windows file Viewer Official Site
  • Then Download the software program from their site which is for free.
  • Once you download the software program install it on to your PC.
  • After the installation is finished you will notice File Viewer shortcut Icon on your Desktop.
  • Just run it to get started using File Viewer.
  • Now just drag and drop the file which you want to open via File Viewer.

Some More Features of Windows File Viewer:

  • Can open upto 140+ different file formats.
  • Works perfectly on all the windows OS like XP,Vista,Windows 7/8 as well.
  • You can check the various file formats it supports over here
  • It also plays videos of different formats with a single drag and drop option.
  • You can Open Documents,Play Multimedia Files,View File Information,Copy File Data.
  • You can view the files in 4 different views namely Native View,Text View,Hex View and Icon View.
  • Do check out the Complete Features of Windows File Viewer

Conclusion:

Like the 25+ Basic Software Programs I mentioned for Windows users this software program is also one of the most essential program as we encounter various types of file formats while using PC and might find it difficult to use.

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

What is Blue Screen Error-How To Fix It In Windows?

Did your PC got stuck with a blue screen and didn't leave any info how to resolve it?
Then your computer is prone to Blue Screen of Death(also known as BSoD or Blue Screen).Which is also known as Stop Error or Bug Check.

What is Blue screen of death (BOSD) or Blue screen error?

Blue Screen of Death is nothing but a Blue error screen which is shown in the Microsoft windows Operating systems normally which stops the further operations. This happens normally when a fatal error occurs. This may take place due to different reasons and even the actions of BSOD will be different,like sometimes it may ask us “continue by pressing any key” or asks to restart or sometimes system may just hang with blue screen. This the most irritating problem that is seen in all version of windows.

Even Owner of Microsoft Billgates can’t escape from Blue screen of death (BOSD):

On 1998 when Bill Gates with his assistant was demonstrating Windows 1998 through a presentation and in sudden Blue error screen appeared ....!!! With that everyone at the presentation laughed and applauded.
After that Bill gates responded with this funny answer
“That must be why we’re not shipping Windows 98 yet”.

Why Blue Screen of Death Error is caused? 

Stop errors are generally hardware or driver related errors, causing the computer to stop responding in order to prevent damage to the hardware or data. In the later versions of Windows (Windows NT and later) the screen presents information for diagnostic purposes that was collected as the operating system performed a bug check.

How to fix the Blue screen of Death:

As there are many reasons for this to occur, sadly there is no particular solution for this. But by following the Tips and Tricks given below you can keep get rid of it mostly.

1. Remove all the programs that starts while you system boots

When your Windows OS loads many of the applications will try to load at the same time, which may lead to BSOD. You need to remove the programs from starting automatically when your system boots. To do this
  1. Press Windows Key + R
  2. Run Box will appear; in the input box type “msconfig” (without quotes) and hit enter.
  3. Click start up and remove all the unwanted programs from there and Apply the settings
  4. It will ask you to restart the system, restart the system and you are done..!
In most of the cases this will Fix your problem, If not check the below things too.

2. Finding and Uninstalling the software’s:

In Few other cases when you are trying to install a software, This blue screen error may occur which clearly says that, The software that you are installing is culprit there and responsible for that. Once verify all the changes that you made to your system and reset them. Uninstall the recent installed applications and this will help you to great extent.

3. Re-setting your hardware’s and drivers:

In some cases due to faulty hardware connection it may show the blue error screen. We can prevent this by ensuring that all hardware connections such as external ports, motherboard pins are set correctly. Even due to bad drivers this may happen (this is what happened to billgates in the above video). By updating the drivers you can avoid this.
By following the above things you can mostly fix the blue screen of death. If still you are getting the problem then just explain us about the error message through a comment and you will get our assistance to overcome it in no time.

Windows 8 is now out with new kind of Blue screen:

Till now all in all version of windows the Error screen in same colour but In the windows 8 this is different. It will tell you about the error with sad emoticon at the top of text And even the colour of that blue screen is different its something like light blue. You can check the below image to know how it looks like.

Conclusion:

All the previous versions of windows are prone to this error but it looks like Microsoft has took an advanced step by resolving this error in windows 8 to a great extent.Lets hope that windows 8 would be with some more advanced features and specifications.Windows 8 is going to be released in the month of October,stay tuned.