Some applications may only be capable of opening such file and viewing its contents while the purpose of others may be converting files to other file formats. Therefore you should check beforehand the capabilities of applications in relation to SFX files.
A situation can arise where user has an appropriate application supporting SFX files installed on their system, but such application is not associated with this type of files. In order to associate given application with SFX files user should open a file submenu by right-clicking the file icon and selecting "Open with" option. System will display a list of suggested programs that can be used to open SFX files. Select appropriate option and check "Always use selected application to open this kind of files".
System will save this information from now on use selected program to open SFX files. When the above-mentioned solutions fail, other options must be pursued. It is possible that the SFX file in question is corrupted or damage. Below you will find a list of the most-used applications that work with SFX. After going to the subpage of the program you will find a link to the developer's website, where you can safely download the software installer.
If the user already has one of the applications installed, the next step will be to associate it with the file extension SFX. The second way is simpler and definitely recommended for less advanced users. The inability to open and operate the SFX file does not necessarily mean that you do not have an appropriate software installed on your computer.
There may be other problems that also block our ability to operate the Self-extracting Compressed Archive Format file. Below is a list of possible problems. If you are sure that all of these reasons do not exist in your case or have already been eliminated , the SFX file should operate with your programs without any problem. If the problem with the SFX file has not been solved, it may be due to the fact that in this case there is also another rare problem with the SFX file.
In this case, the only you can do is to ask for assistance of a professional staff. If you want to associate a file with a new program e. SFX you have two ways to do it. The first and the easiest one is to right-click on the selected SFX file.
From the drop-down menu select "Choose default program" , then click "Browse" and find the desired program. The whole operation must be confirmed by clicking OK.
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