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Message: [QUOTE="Lem, post: 12613570"] Just to add to Alan's cogent information, do not make the mistake of thinking files *must* be a particular format just because Windows "thinks" they are and assigns a particular icon to them. Windows uses the three-letter file name extension to determine what "kind" of a file it is dealing with. Not infrequently, the designers of different application programs end up choosing the same three-letter file extension to describe files that have nothing whatsoever to do with each other. The icon that's displayed and the corresponding description that appears in Windows Explorer just represent the last application that has "told" Windows that it "owns" files with that extension. As Alan says, the SPL and SHD files in the \spool\printer directory undoubtedly are print-related files and not flash files. If you want to know what kind of file something is based on its file extension, [URL="http://www.filext.com"]www.filext.com[/URL] is a good place to start. It reveals, for example, that an *.SPL file might be: (a) a Compressed Archive File; (b) a Digitrakker Sample file; (c) an Adobe (or MacroMedia) Flash FutureSplash Document file; (d) a Bioware Infinity Game Engine Spell file; (e) a Microsoft printer spool file; (f) a Sample File; (g) a Shockwave Flash Object; (h) a SoniqCast SoniqSync file; (i) a Sound file; (j) a Spell Checker file; (k) an ABACOM IngenieurbÃ¼ro sPlan Circuit Diagram file; (l) a Split Files Shell Extension file; (m) a Sprint Customized Printer Driver file; or (n) an Unknown Apple II File (found on Golden Orchard Apple II CD Rom). For details, see [URL]http://filext.com/file-extension/spl[/URL] -- Lem -- MS-MVP To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM. [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer[/URL] [URL]http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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