Winrar Problem Video Cd Movie?!?!? Cant auto-install

[I-275westcoastflorida 1]

Im having a problem in winrar when i normally click download and it normally opens and shows a CD icon which id double click to install the file but now it just says video cd movie and i cannot open it. Its maybe some kind of setting can anyone help me if they know what it is??

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

You should ask computer and application support elsewhere in future.  This board is concerned with the the game SimCity.

But anyway, it seems you have picked up a movie.  You should unpack the files into a folder and read the readme.txt file.

[tungston 19]

The compressed file is already unpacked, and you can't open dat files.

The reason it says video CD movie, is because somehow the extension .dat has been assosiated with that format. Some time you, or someone has tried to open a dat file, and used that program to open it. The box that says "always use this......." was checked.

I see a readme file, what does it say, have you read it?

[I-275westcoastflorida 1]

Yes i read the readme it doesnt help i think its a setting with winrar is there a way to change it back to normal?? I know its not a sim city issue but i only use this for sim city downloads so it would help a lot to fix it.

[tungston 19]

Originally posted by: I-275westcoastflorida Yes i read the readme it doesnt help i think its a setting with winrar is there a way to change it back to normal?? I know its not a sim city issue but i only use this for sim city downloads so it would help a lot to fix it.quote>

 

Just because the dat files are associated with the Video CD Movie, won't keep them from working in Simcity.  They are still dat files, the Video program won't open the dat files.  

You don't have to fix it, add the files to the plugins, I would use a subfolder.  But if you want to fix it, do the following.

Open Windows Explorer, under the tools menu click "folder options"  there open the "file types" tab, and scroll down to the dat listing, highlight it, and delete it.  Dat files shouldn't be associated with anything.

[I-275westcoastflorida 1]

^^thanks it worked!