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Mars Needs Women
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I play the Starfleet Command Games and often I download new models for them. However I've noticed that my computer seems to recognize the file containing the model as an mpeg, which of course it isn't. Any way to fix this?

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AndrewR
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Alter your file associations? Just a guess.
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Mars Needs Women
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How do I do that?
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Ritten
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Right click on the file, hit properties, and you will see it there.

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Mars Needs Women
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Nope, doesn't do it. It tells me what type of file it is but it doesn't let me change it.
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Omega
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Right click, open with, select the program you want and tell it to always use that program. Sometimes even that doesn't work, Windows seems to really really want to open certain files with WMP no matter what I tell it...

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Mars Needs Women
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Well its set to open with another program, not WMP. Yet the files are still listed as MPEGS. God damn retard computer of mine.
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What about opening up an explorer window, click tools -> Folder Options -> File Types, then look for it in the list, delete the original file association and make a new one and associate it with whatever program. See if that helps.
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Mars Needs Women
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That did it, thanks!
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Also, that picture is useless with hidden extensions. Just sayin', y'know.

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Sean
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Since this seems to be the current computer help thread, does anyone know how to turn filter keys off? Sometimes I stay on the shift key too long, which appearently turns filter keys on, and then screws with my mouse clicks, and turns everything I type into capital letters, w/o the CAPS lock being on. I just had to restart my pc to turn them off, but that is a pain in the butt. Any suggestions?

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Press and hold the right shift key for five seconds. That'll turn on one of the other accessibility things, which will include instructions on turning them all off.
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Sean
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Thanks.

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Ritten
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Sean, you need to be a bit more shiftless in the future.

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Sean
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Well, sometimes I zone out when I'm typing, to think about what I'll type next, and my hand will fall there from habit.

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