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Old October 16th 08, 05:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax
Lem[_2_]
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Default Print Spooler Errors/Problems-You Wont BELIEVE The Cause

California4x4 wrote:
In windows\system32\spool\printer I found two files that did NOT belong
there. How they got there is anyone's guess. They we 0002.SPL and
0002.SHD, both of which are Shockwave Flash objects.


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, www.filext.com 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 Ingenieurbüro 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 http://filext.com/file-extension/spl
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