trouble with jpg files

Hi

Recently, when I receive .jpg attachments from people and I try to open
them, I get an error message that says there is no association for the file
type It shows the file type as WER. I've never seen this before and I
never had this problem in the past. The file extension of the attachment is
..jpg. When I save the files to my folder, it also shows the description
under the type as WER. What is this type of file and any idea how to get my
computer settings to treat these files as jpg's the way it did before?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859

regards, Richard


"Swissy" <Swissy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> Recently, when I receive .jpg attachments from people and I try to open
> them, I get an error message that says there is no association for the
> file
> type It shows the file type as WER. I've never seen this before and I
> never had this problem in the past. The file extension of the attachment
> is
> .jpg. When I save the files to my folder, it also shows the description
> under the type as WER. What is this type of file and any idea how to get
> my
> computer settings to treat these files as jpg's the way it did before?

....did as kb below, set 2000 byte size - it works lovely i.e. no slow
postage stamps / slow desktop reload after quitting progs.

regards, Richard


"RJK" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859
>
> regards, Richard
>
>
> "Swissy" <Swissy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1F05A9FE-C280-4FBB-94BC-6B54BA4BDB45@microsoft.com...
>> Hi
>>
>> Recently, when I receive .jpg attachments from people and I try to open
>> them, I get an error message that says there is no association for the
>> file
>> type It shows the file type as WER. I've never seen this before and I
>> never had this problem in the past. The file extension of the
>> attachment is
>> .jpg. When I save the files to my folder, it also shows the description
>> under the type as WER. What is this type of file and any idea how to get
>> my
>> computer settings to treat these files as jpg's the way it did before?
>
>

Thanks Richard

It used to open automatically with the correct program. I've fixed it, but
it still shows the file type as WER which it never did before. Any idea what
this type of file is? I've looked at my folders containing my pictures and
most of the .jpg files are now showing this as the file type when it used to
show another one before (can't remember which...one of my photosuite
programs). I just don't understand why it suddenly changed.

"RJK" wrote:

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859
>
> regards, Richard
>
>
> "Swissy" <Swissy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1F05A9FE-C280-4FBB-94BC-6B54BA4BDB45@microsoft.com...
> > Hi
> >
> > Recently, when I receive .jpg attachments from people and I try to open
> > them, I get an error message that says there is no association for the
> > file
> > type It shows the file type as WER. I've never seen this before and I
> > never had this problem in the past. The file extension of the attachment
> > is
> > .jpg. When I save the files to my folder, it also shows the description
> > under the type as WER. What is this type of file and any idea how to get
> > my
> > computer settings to treat these files as jpg's the way it did before?
>
>
>

I don't know ! Assuming that you haven't recently installed an application
which you've allowed to interfere with filetype associations -
If you save an "attached" *.jpg file, and Windows Explorer lists it with
a different filetype - I think I would suspect malware, or virus !

regards, Richard


"Swissy" <Swissy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1F05A9FE-C280-4FBB-94BC-6B54BA4BDB45@microsoft.com...
> Hi
>
> Recently, when I receive .jpg attachments from people and I try to open
> them, I get an error message that says there is no association for the
> file
> type It shows the file type as WER. I've never seen this before and I
> never had this problem in the past. The file extension of the attachment
> is
> .jpg. When I save the files to my folder, it also shows the description
> under the type as WER. What is this type of file and any idea how to get
> my
> computer settings to treat these files as jpg's the way it did before?

Swissy wrote:
> Hi
>
> Recently, when I receive .jpg attachments from people and I try to open
> them, I get an error message that says there is no association for the file
> type It shows the file type as WER. I've never seen this before and I
> never had this problem in the past. The file extension of the attachment is
> .jpg. When I save the files to my folder, it also shows the description
> under the type as WER. What is this type of file and any idea how to get my
> computer settings to treat these files as jpg's the way it did before?

http://www.file-extensions.org/egg-file-extension
Did you ever have this game loaded?

"Big_Al" <BigAl@md.com> wrote in message
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> Swissy wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Recently, when I receive .jpg attachments from people and I try to open
>> them, I get an error message that says there is no association for the
>> file type It shows the file type as WER. I've never seen this before
>> and I never had this problem in the past. The file extension of the
>> attachment is .jpg. When I save the files to my folder, it also shows
>> the description under the type as WER. What is this type of file and any
>> idea how to get my computer settings to treat these files as jpg's the
>> way it did before?
>
> http://www.file-extensions.org/egg-file-extension
> Did you ever have this game loaded?

Could it be this? http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/maintain/StartWER.mspx

Swissy wrote:
> Thanks Richard
>
> It used to open automatically with the correct program. I've fixed
> it, but it still shows the file type as WER which it never did
> before. Any idea what this type of file is? I've looked at my
> folders containing my pictures and most of the .jpg files are now
> showing this as the file type when it used to show another one before
> (can't remember which...one of my photosuite programs). I just don't
> understand why it suddenly changed.
>

Is the name of the file of the form "myfile.JPG.WER"?

"lobo" wrote:

>
> "Big_Al" <BigAl@md.com> wrote in message
> news:OD6OJIR8IHA.3624@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> > Swissy wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Recently, when I receive .jpg attachments from people and I try to open
> >> them, I get an error message that says there is no association for the
> >> file type It shows the file type as WER. I've never seen this before
> >> and I never had this problem in the past. The file extension of the
> >> attachment is .jpg. When I save the files to my folder, it also shows
> >> the description under the type as WER. What is this type of file and any
> >> idea how to get my computer settings to treat these files as jpg's the
> >> way it did before?
> >
> > http://www.file-extensions.org/egg-file-extension
> > Did you ever have this game loaded?
>
> Could it be this? http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/maintain/StartWER.mspx

Nope. When I open up my documents folder, it will list all my files with
columns called Name, size, type and date modified. Under the type column, it
shows it as 'wer'. The file name itself does not include wer as part of the
extension. All the jpeg files names are show as *.jpg (* being file name).
I am just stumped as to where the file type of wer came from when it was
never there before. I've run my adware program and ran a Norton full scan,
but it did not find any malware or virus.
>
>
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