I can not open downloaded file Max de Winter 6/22/2007 10:06:00 PM I have been trying to open a dowloaded file. When I tried to doubleclicking the screen started flashing. I had to other option to restart the computer. I found it was a zipped file so loaded down a winzip file. When I tried to unzip the file I found the system did not recognise the file. It is a pgn file. Where can I find a program that opens pgn files without having to load down other items that I already have on my computer eg Disc defrag etc. -- Max de Winter

Re: I can not open downloaded file "DL" <address[ at ]invalid> 6/23/2007 12:17:07 AM Surely the site you downloaded from would have given you some indication as to what was required? Google will give many possibilities "Max de Winter" <MaxdeWinter[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:36880D14-6A03-4355-A36B-7931D8C66CFE[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > I have been trying to open a dowloaded file. When I tried to doubleclicking > the screen started flashing. I had to other option to restart the computer. I > found it was a zipped file so loaded down a winzip file. When I tried to > unzip the file I found the system did not recognise the file. It is a pgn > file. Where can I find a program that opens pgn files without having to load > down other items that I already have on my computer eg Disc defrag etc. > -- > Max de Winter

RE: I can not open downloaded file Byte 6/23/2007 8:02:00 PM It's a Chess game file. If you don't play Chess, just delete it. -- XP - WNP Today is the first day of the rest of your life. "Max de Winter" wrote: [Quoted Text] > I have been trying to open a dowloaded file. When I tried to doubleclicking > the screen started flashing. I had to other option to restart the computer. I > found it was a zipped file so loaded down a winzip file. When I tried to > unzip the file I found the system did not recognise the file. It is a pgn > file. Where can I find a program that opens pgn files without having to load > down other items that I already have on my computer eg Disc defrag etc. > -- > Max de Winter

Re: I can not open downloaded file "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.am.invalid.domain> 6/23/2007 8:20:07 PM On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:06:00 -0700, Max de Winter <MaxdeWinter[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > I have been trying to open a dowloaded file. When I tried to doubleclicking > the screen started flashing. I had to other option to restart the computer. I > found it was a zipped file so loaded down a winzip file. When I tried to > unzip the file I found the system did not recognise the file. It is a pgn > file. Where can I find a program that opens pgn files without having to load > down other items that I already have on my computer eg Disc defrag etc. "Pgn" stands for "portable game notation," and it's a standard format for files containing the moves of chess games. Lots of chess software can open it, and some is freeware. Google pgn viewer to find some choices. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Re: I can not open downloaded file "Don Schmidt" <Don Engineer[ at ]PNB.Retired_1987> 6/23/2007 8:55:47 PM Take a look here for some help. http://pgn.freeservers.com/ -- Don Vancouver, USA "Byte" <Byte[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8C5B2ED0-5D55-487A-8A86-DB0501AB9C92[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > It's a Chess game file. If you don't play Chess, just delete it. > -- > XP - WNP > Today is the first day of the > rest of your life. > > > > "Max de Winter" wrote: > >> I have been trying to open a dowloaded file. When I tried to >> doubleclicking >> the screen started flashing. I had to other option to restart the >> computer. I >> found it was a zipped file so loaded down a winzip file. When I tried to >> unzip the file I found the system did not recognise the file. It is a pgn >> file. Where can I find a program that opens pgn files without having to >> load >> down other items that I already have on my computer eg Disc defrag etc. >> -- >> Max de Winter

Re: I can not open downloaded file Darell 6/26/2007 9:16:01 PM I have beeen having similar problems, when I tried to extract my first file using Vista it told me it didn't recognize the file type. I then guessed at the type and I was wrong; but the system changed every file in the folder to my guessed file type. How do I get back to where I can extract these files. I also tried downloading WinZip and on a different folder it changed all the files to a setup file for winzip. I was then told I didn't have admin priviledges so I needed to contact someone with priviledges to be able to download WinZip. When I first downloaded WinZip it started to work and let me pick a file to extract but I think it tried to open it in IE v7 and screen started flashing. I had to do a crash type shutdown to stop the problem. Any suggestions as how to correct the problem and get me to be the admin with all priviledges? "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote: [Quoted Text] > On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:06:00 -0700, Max de Winter > <MaxdeWinter[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > > I have been trying to open a dowloaded file. When I tried to doubleclicking > > the screen started flashing. I had to other option to restart the computer. I > > found it was a zipped file so loaded down a winzip file. When I tried to > > unzip the file I found the system did not recognise the file. It is a pgn > > file. Where can I find a program that opens pgn files without having to load > > down other items that I already have on my computer eg Disc defrag etc. > > > "Pgn" stands for "portable game notation," and it's a standard format > for files containing the moves of chess games. Lots of chess software > can open it, and some is freeware. Google pgn viewer to find some > choices. > > -- > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User > Please Reply to the Newsgroup >