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I'm not sure exactly what happened. I have windows 8.1, and I have it set up so that I can use is pretty as I did my windows 7, with a desktop.
I'm lost with the windows 8 'desktop' tiles style.
So I'll ask for directions, if possible, based on accessing things from my 'desktop' instead.
I went to open an unzipped file in my Paint shop pro 7 program. It was a tube file (.psp or .jsl or .pfr. or .tub, most likely the first or the later of those) I downloaded as a zip previous to this issue. Anyways it said it was not a file my psp could open. So I right-clicked it and said open with Paint instead, that usually works and then I can save it as a .gif or .jpeg and open in PSP.
Well, when I said open with, instead it somehow converted ALL my downloaded zip files on my computer to "paint" files, and any zip I try to download now is created as a 'paint' file. Of course this makes it a file I cannot access since it was a zip and not a paint file to begin with. All i can think is that I somehow inadvertently set my computer to use Paint as default for 'unzipping' zipped files.
Image A:
When I click on the .tub file to download it as a zip, this is the screen that comes up. I say save, so it goes to my download folder in Mozilla firefox.
Image B:
When I go to my download folder, instead of being a zip file, it's been changed to a 'paint' file, thus that paint icon next to name.
Image C:
So of course when I go to open it, since it's a zip file, paint can't open it, as this message in image C confirms.
Any ideas how I can reverse/fix this? In windows7, I've have been inclined to set my computer back to the latest restore date prior to this issue, but windows 8.1, I've learned is a different species entirely.
I download and use a lot of graphics, so unzip regularly, which makes this a big issue for me.
Sorry I can't give more details of exactly what/how what happened did. I have no idea.
Oh, I was apparently always using whatever 'unzip' utility comes with windows 8.1, since I never downloaded and installed any program for that.
I also have AVG Internet security 2015, which is not included in the system info below.
Thanks for reviewing this and hopefully we can fix this.
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro, 64 bit
Processor: AMD FX(tm)-4170 Quad-Core Processor, AMD64 Family 21 Model 1 Stepping 2
Processor Count: 4
RAM: 8173 Mb
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6450, 1024 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 453517 MB, Free - 411203 MB; M: Total - 499997 MB, Free - 499212 MB; S: Total - 119247 MB, Free - 85769 MB; T: Total - 119223 MB, Free - 87204 MB;
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd., GA-970A-DS3
Antivirus: Windows Defender, Disabled
I'm not sure exactly what happened. I have windows 8.1, and I have it set up so that I can use is pretty as I did my windows 7, with a desktop.
I'm lost with the windows 8 'desktop' tiles style.
So I'll ask for directions, if possible, based on accessing things from my 'desktop' instead.
I went to open an unzipped file in my Paint shop pro 7 program. It was a tube file (.psp or .jsl or .pfr. or .tub, most likely the first or the later of those) I downloaded as a zip previous to this issue. Anyways it said it was not a file my psp could open. So I right-clicked it and said open with Paint instead, that usually works and then I can save it as a .gif or .jpeg and open in PSP.
Well, when I said open with, instead it somehow converted ALL my downloaded zip files on my computer to "paint" files, and any zip I try to download now is created as a 'paint' file. Of course this makes it a file I cannot access since it was a zip and not a paint file to begin with. All i can think is that I somehow inadvertently set my computer to use Paint as default for 'unzipping' zipped files.
Image A:
When I click on the .tub file to download it as a zip, this is the screen that comes up. I say save, so it goes to my download folder in Mozilla firefox.
Image B:
When I go to my download folder, instead of being a zip file, it's been changed to a 'paint' file, thus that paint icon next to name.
Image C:
So of course when I go to open it, since it's a zip file, paint can't open it, as this message in image C confirms.
Any ideas how I can reverse/fix this? In windows7, I've have been inclined to set my computer back to the latest restore date prior to this issue, but windows 8.1, I've learned is a different species entirely.
I download and use a lot of graphics, so unzip regularly, which makes this a big issue for me.
Sorry I can't give more details of exactly what/how what happened did. I have no idea.
Oh, I was apparently always using whatever 'unzip' utility comes with windows 8.1, since I never downloaded and installed any program for that.
I also have AVG Internet security 2015, which is not included in the system info below.
Thanks for reviewing this and hopefully we can fix this.
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro, 64 bit
Processor: AMD FX(tm)-4170 Quad-Core Processor, AMD64 Family 21 Model 1 Stepping 2
Processor Count: 4
RAM: 8173 Mb
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6450, 1024 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 453517 MB, Free - 411203 MB; M: Total - 499997 MB, Free - 499212 MB; S: Total - 119247 MB, Free - 85769 MB; T: Total - 119223 MB, Free - 87204 MB;
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd., GA-970A-DS3
Antivirus: Windows Defender, Disabled