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What files does Android open?

You can no longer do anything without a smart gadget, be it study, work or anything else. Android can open many standard files: mp3, mp4, avi. Of course, in order to open a file on Android, a special application is required. Thus, you can open almost any file on Android if you install the appropriate utility.

Let's look at what files can be opened on Android:

txt
doc
xls
zip
apk
pdf
html

You can open avi, mp3, mp4 using the programs that we described in our articles:

How to watch videos on Android
– some applications from this article not only download audio files, but also play them

Solution

First of all, check your computer for viruses and the question immediately arises: how to scan your computer for viruses if not a single program starts? Everything is very simple, you need to download the LiveCD (with built-in antivirus), then burn it to a CD/DVD disc and boot from it from under Bios. If you don’t have the Internet at hand, you can remove the hard drive and connect it to another computer as an additional hard drive and check it for viruses on another computer.

If exe files do not open after scanning with an antivirus, then try the methods below.

If programs still do not open, then one of the solutions is to perform a system restore using the Windows installation disk. If you have encountered such a problem, then write how you solved it, I will be interested in hearing from you. If exe files still do not launch in Windows 7, then watch the video below.

Be sure to watch the video:

Android is an open operating system, which makes it possible to download and run any file, even with the .exe extension. We'll tell you how to open a file on Android in this article.

How to open a pdf file on Android

To read a pdf file you can use PocketBook Reader. It is freely available on Google Play. The application is free, and also without advertising.

A good utility with useful functions. After loading a file into PocetBook, you can leaf through it like a book using gestures or the volume buttons of your phone/tablet. Reading the contents of a pdf file is convenient and easy; you can change the background, choose the color of the text, enlarge or reduce the text. In general, set it up the way you feel comfortable.

The program allows you to search by text.

While reading the text, you can make notes on it, highlight a certain area of the text with a marker and take screenshots. These changes can be saved to a separate file without affecting the contents of the pdf file. Notes can always be opened and reviewed.

Working with office files

The Play Store offers a huge number of applications for reading and editing Office documents. The Google Drive and Microsoft Office apps are technically document reader-only apps, meaning you can view and read a document, but not edit it.

If you want to open, edit, save or even convert DOCX, XLSX, PPT, PDF files on Android, then your best bet is to download one of the dedicated apps.

In this case, it is worth mentioning Documents (Google), Sheets (Google), Slides (Google), Word, Excel and PowerPoint. All of them can export PDF files, which can be opened by most Android smartphones, thanks to the fact that Google Drive comes pre-installed with a built-in PDF viewer.

How to open a doc file on Android

You can open a doc file on Android using many programs that are available for free on Google Play.
One of these is Cool Reader. The Cool Reader interface is designed in the style of a book, because the developers created a utility for reading books. Even turning pages in Cool Reader looks like turning pages in a book. Of course, standard page loading is also present.

In addition to the doc extension, the utility supports the following formats:

fb2
epub (DRM free)
rtf
chm
tcr
pd
prc
mobi (DRM-free)
pml

The application has convenient access to folders. Every book has a cover. You can search for fragments in the text, adjust the brightness for a certain time of day, change the font size and make bookmarks.

The main feature of Cool Reader is reading books from a .zip archive.

This utility also supports the .txt format.

Opening, unpacking, extracting zip, rar files, and archive files of other formats

Do you want a zip file manager for Android to extract or open zip, rar files or other types of archive files? These types of archive files are easy to download and quite common on a desktop computer, but Android phones cannot decompress using default apps. However, there are simple ways to perform such actions on an Android device.

The first thing you should ask yourself is whether your best option would be to use a "file manager" app, many of which can easily extract zip or rar files and come with many other handy features for opening all kinds of files.

The ZArchiver app is completely free and contains no advertising. It has a clean user interface and supports many types of archive files. It also has options for encryption and password protection.

There are also free (albeit ad-supported) versions of WinZip and WinRAR for Android, but you can easily pay for a premium version without ads.

How to open xls file on Android

We have all at least once dealt with files created in Microsoft Office programs. Yes, the doc format is also created in MS Office, but it is supported by more Android programs than xls. How to open a file on Android?

The xls format is read by the WPS Office application, which has over a million downloads from the Play Market.

The application is available in paid and free versions. There is advertising.

WPS Office even has a number of Google Play awards:

Best App of 2015
Editor's Choice
Best Developer

In the free version you can edit all formats from MS Office, convert them to PDF, create presentations and protect data from prying eyes.

You can view and edit files in WPS Office. In addition to the standard set of functions, the paid version of WPS Office allows you to convert PDF to Word, merge and split PDF files.

The application supports pdf files.

Play any audio format on Android

The stock Android media player has no problem with MP3 and can play MP4, 3GP, M4A, OTA, MKV and TS audio files, but there are some audio formats that can be a bit of a hassle.

Any Android user who enjoys music and audiobooks on their smartphone or tablet will sooner or later start searching for an audio player that can meet their specific requirements.

Today there are many different audio player applications to suit different tastes. When it comes to the sheer versatility of supported file formats, there are two candidates worthy of your consideration.

The best apps for listening to music on the go.

PowerAmp

Besides MP3, PowerAmp music player supports the following formats: MP4, M4A, ALAC, OGG, WMA, FLAC, WAV, APE, WV and TTA. Extensive features, intuitive user interface and comprehensive adaptability make this application one of the most popular audio players. There's a free trial, but if you want more, you'll have to fork over a few dollars for the paid version.

How to open a zip file on Android

Archives are convenient because they have several purposes. Firstly, the data included in the archive is compressed without loss of information. Secondly, someone uses archives as a way to transfer data, for example, photographs. In order not to transfer one photo at a time over the network, they are uploaded to an archive. Many users use the WinZip program on their computer. How to open a file on Android? There is a WinZip archiver that helps you open a file on Android. You can download it from the Play Market.

Using it you can create an archive or unpack it.

The program has a simple interface, which makes working with it clear and convenient.

WinZip will not be able to open a file on Android that was created in WinRar.

Answers on questions

HTML - what program opens this file on Android?

An html file is essentially a web page. You can open it with any browser installed on your gadget.

Therefore, it is logical, before downloading a file, to inquire about its format, which can be determined by its extension.

Read more about this in the post. In order for us to better recognize the file type, a specific icon is attached to it, for example:

- a regular text file that will open in any Windows notepad and on any computer.

- microsoft word program document

- this is a saved web page (page of a website)

Each type of file has its own program that can “read” or “open” it. For example, files with the extension .txt are opened by the Notepad program, files with the extension .doc by Microsoft Word, files .html by any Internet browser, for example, Internet explorer.

Very often when working with files, it happens that Windows does not recognize a file and therefore cannot open it.

This happens because the type of file being opened is unknown to the system. In other words, the file is “not tied” to any of the programs installed on the system, and the system simply does not know which program to open this file with.

This is expressed in the form of a window with the message “Could not open the file”

, which appears when you click on the file:

Thus, if such a window appears, we simply need to register this file type in the system and “bind” this type to a specific program.

But before we start linking, we need to understand what kind of file we are trying to open, and what program can open it. And you can do this by looking at the extension of the file being opened (in my example it is fb2):

It may happen that you do not have an extension in the file name. To enable display of file extensions in Windows

If the file extension is unfamiliar to you, and you don’t know which program can open a file of this type, then you can simply search the Internet for the answer to this question:

Thus, we will find out which programs can be used to open a document of this type, and if none of the suitable programs are installed on our computer, then we need to download and install such a program.

It is possible that immediately after installing the program, the program will automatically “link” our previously unknown file to itself and when opening it, the window will no longer appear. However, this may not happen, so if the window with a message about unsuccessful opening of the file appears again, we need to select the Select a program from the list of installed programs

If the program you need is not in the list of programs presented, but you know that it is on the computer, you need to click the Browse

and find what you need manually (in the place where we installed it or usually in C:\program files\) and select it (in my example it is the CoolReader3 program).

that application programs always have an EXE

After this, the program will appear in the Select a program

If we did everything correctly, then the next thing we will see is the opening of our file by the specified program:

However, keep in mind

, that you can “link” a file with a program only if you are sure that the selected program is really suitable for this type of file. If this turns out not to be the case, then opening such a file may cause the program to freeze or generate an error.

By the way, there may be another situation when the file does not open when working, for example, with Microsoft Windows: it becomes impossible to load a Word document into the editor window, since the system reports that the document is occupied by another application. Most often, such phenomena are observed after the user has forcibly canceled a task (for example, unloaded a frozen Word from memory) using the Task Manager. This happens for the following reason.

In addition to tasks, Windows also has processes. A process is a virtual memory address space allocated for the execution of any procedures by a program or the operating system itself. One task can activate several different processes in Windows: for example, Word (one task) can simultaneously work with several text documents (one document - one process). In our case, after the Word editor stopped working (dismissed the task), the document processing process opened by it remained in the computer’s memory, that is, Windows continues to believe that the document is still open in the editor window, although the editor itself is not running. This problem is solved as follows.

Open the Task Manager window by simultaneously pressing the Ctrl, Alt and Del

. In Windows 2000/XP, click at the top of the Task Manager window to open the Processes tab. Select in the list the process of processing a file that you cannot open by clicking (usually in the Username column it is indicated by the name of your account) and cancel it by clicking the End process button.

However, you can simply restart your computer.

Hello everyone dear readers! The exe extension is an executable file; any installed program has this extension. Some users encountered an error when, when launching the application, a window was displayed on the screen where the system prompted them to choose which program to open this file through, and in some cases the system may produce other errors. In any case, if exe files do not open, there are several ways to solve this problem. If you don’t know what a file name extension is, you can read the article “”.

The cause of such an error is often caused by viruses, but there is also a problem with opening the executable file; the user who made changes in the registry may be negligent.

How to open an exe file on Android

Android can open such files only with the help of other programs. In this case, you will need an emulator.

We use one of the available emulators - Bochs.

Download the program and install it on your device.
Next you will need the SDL archive for Bochs, you can find it on the forums
The SDL archive has a .zip extension; we described above how to unpack it. You need to unpack the archive into the SDL folder in the root of the memory card, having previously created this folder
To run the executable you will need a Windows OS image. Download the one that suits you from the Internet. The image must have the extension .img. Please note that .img is not an image, but an image
After downloading the image, rename it “c.img” and place it in the SDL folder
Launch the Bochs emulator. After launching the Bochs program, you will be able to open files with the extension .exe

The cursor in the emulator is controlled using the volume buttons.

What is a BIN file and why doesn't it open?

The “.bin” file format (everything after the dot is called an extension and helps the operating system understand what kind of file it is and how to open it) is designed for various tasks. Most often, it contains firmware for routers, components of games and programs, or even videos, disk images, cartridges, BIOS for PS1 consoles, and so on.

The extension itself stands for binary. In fact, this is just a binary file that consists only of zeros and ones. So if you open it in a text editor, it will just be a bunch of these two numbers.

What is BIN? We are talking about the abbreviation of the English word binary, which is translated into Russian as “binary”

To open such a file, special programs are used, and depending on the information in the file, they use their own. It's best to review the documentation on the site where you downloaded the file so you know what to do with it next.

That is, if this is a video, you need to use a player, if this is a game image for an old console, an emulator is used, and so on.