I can not open downloaded file

[Guest]

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.

 

[DL]

Surely the site you downloaded from would have given you some indication as
to what was required?

Google will give many possibilities

 

[Guest]

It's a Chess game file. If you don't play Chess, just delete it.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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.

 

[Don Schmidt]

Take a look here for some help.

http://pgn.freeservers.com/

 

[Guest]

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?