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How can I store a webpage title inside a Windows .url file?
This is a question about the .url file format:
How can I store the webpage title inside a Windows .url file ?
I was unable to find an official documentation of the .url file format anywhere on the Net....
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How do I detect the format of a file LOCALLY on the command line?
I do not want to upload my private files anywhere.
I do not have any use of anything which guesses the format based on the file extension.
I'm trying to find some sort of utility which is able to let ...
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In Windows, what are the purposes of file extensions?
As far as I know, in Linux filename extensions don't have any special meaning to the operating system. It helps users to identify the file, of course, but the OS itself simply does not care about it (...
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Why different hex editors show different binary for a file?
When I open a binary(in this case it is C:\\Windows\\System32\\notepad.exe), different hex editors show different result each other, for the one same file. I tested it on starting point of section ...
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Windows recognzie file format as a zip archive
Windows Explorer will automatically open .zip archives as a file folder. I'm making a custom file format for some data analysis that is nothing more than a zip archive of text files. However, I want ...
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Opening a SITX file on Windows 10
This question bears some similarity to .sitx File --- 7zip can't open it, what can? - however, that was answered six years ago and I don't know if the response is still accurate in 2016.
SITX is ...
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Recycle Bin storage location [duplicate]
I am interested to know, in which location and format are files stored when we put them in Recycle Bin? And when we delete them, where they go?
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What encoding parameters are used for the /Windows/Media sound files?
Specifically, what's the:
Encoding (e.g. signed 16-bit PCM, 32-bit float, A-Law, 24-bit AWVW,
VOX ADPCM, etc.)
Byte order (e.g. little-endian or big-endian)
Channel count (e.g. 1/mono, 2/stereo)
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Why are the file formats different?
When you go to a certain site to download an application. why can't you run the same file formats for different operating systems?
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"%1" in the "Open With menu" in Windows 8.1
While trying to choose the program to open some .TGA files, I clicked "Open with" and what I saw was that there is an option "%1", and it's selected by default.
What is that? Is it a bug in registry ...
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Optimal file format for USB3 memory [duplicate]
Which is the best choice and why for formatting a USB3 memory stick?
FAT32 was the out of the box, but the file size limit is a to small.
FAT32
NTFS
exFAT
Size, speed and stability are good ...
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Unable to open DicomViewer file without CD
I don't know if this question belongs here or not but it is an emergency for me.
I just got my father's angiogram report as a DICOM file but I am unable to view it. When I try to open the file I get ...
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Open source, command-line tool to convert Excel .xls to .xlsx without Excel
I'm looking for an open source, command-line tool to convert files from the old, binary Excel ".xls" format to the new (Excel 2007) Open XML .xlsx, without Excel installed, on a Windows PC.
Ideas?
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Opening Forwarded emails from Mac Users
I am running Outlook 2007. Whenever a mac user forwards me an email, it has a MIME type, "x-apple-msg-attachment" . What program can I use to view such messages? Outlook won't open them.
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Is there a utility which do retrieve file format information?
There is a file utility in linux.
The users can get file format information by file.
I'd like to use this program in my application.
Is there a Windows utility? Open source is better.
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