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  • Sep 29, 2010, 03:27 PM
    missfitt
    I have windows Vista, and I can't open files designated to Windows Media Center?
    I have Windows Vista, which came with this computer,
    And occasionally get files from my daughter's school designated to Windows Media Center, which I can't open in anything. There seems to be nowhere to open it in Media Center, but when I click it... that's where it takes me. Very frustrating.
  • Sep 29, 2010, 03:31 PM
    NeedKarma
    What are the file extensions of the files you can't open?
  • Sep 30, 2010, 04:02 AM
    cdad

    Does it play the files for you? What is it your trying to do with them besides play them?
  • Sep 30, 2010, 01:03 PM
    missfitt

    I'm just trying to read them... they are bulletins about current school events.
  • Sep 30, 2010, 01:04 PM
    missfitt

    They have a Doc. Extension.
  • Sep 30, 2010, 01:08 PM
    Curlyben
    DOC is opened with Microsoft WORD, part of the Office Suite.

    If you don't have this then Open Office does the trick and it's FREE.
  • Sep 30, 2010, 01:16 PM
    missfitt

    I have Microsoft Works, but the only thing that would open it is notepad... and it comes up all giberish.
  • Sep 30, 2010, 01:18 PM
    Curlyben
    Works doesn't.

    Best idea, go grab Open Office and it'll work fine from there.
    It's available here: OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite
  • Sep 30, 2010, 01:27 PM
    missfitt

    Thanks! Will give it a try.
  • Oct 1, 2010, 06:17 PM
    missfitt

    It worked!! Thanks a million!

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