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Details for file extension .ASK are on this page. Because there is no central registry for file extensions and their associated programs there may be multiple entries on this page. And, because there are many (some say over a million) such associations not all may be listed here. A search on the file extension you submitted shows 5 record(s).

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The details for each of these are shown below. The best FILExt can do for you is provide the details we know about. Selecting the information that applies to your particular situation is up to you. Use any hints provided. If the information here is not helpful, FILExt is sorry; but as a research site FILExt cannot provide personal support. If you need further information you might try the research tips on the FILExt Help Me page.

Extension: ASK
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
Ad-Aware Skin File		Lavasoft
Specific Notes [What's This?]
Ad-Aware provides protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components. Usually found in the ...\Skins folder under the program's install folder. ..... [Search for ASK file errors with this scan.]
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 18072 last modified on 2005-05-01.

Extension: ASK
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
ALShow Media Player Skin		ESTsoft
Specific Notes [What's This?]
ALShow is a free movie player with CODECs already built in. SK skin files are zip compressed archives with a specific folder structure, XML files, and various images as defined in the XML skin definitions. Basically, it's a container format. ..... [Search for ASK file errors with this scan.]
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
application/x-ask		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 19982 last modified on 2006-08-10.

Extension: ASK
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
askSam Database		askSam Systems
Specific Notes [What's This?]
askSam is a free-form database program. ..... [Search for ASK file errors with this scan.]
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
	Database	None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
Hex: 61 73 6B 77 ASCII: askw
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 1249 last modified on 2008-10-26.

Extension: ASK
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
Astrotite Skin		Fantiusen Software
Specific Notes [What's This?]
Astrolite is a storage tool that allows you to generate the same hashing for the same files, even though they may be compressed by different people and different computers. ..... [Search for ASK file errors with this scan.]
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 14729 last modified on 2003-06-12.

Extension: ASK
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
Daqarta Extended Audio Data		Interstellar Research
Specific Notes [What's This?]
Daqarta uses your Windows sound card to provide high performance waveform and FFT spectrum analysis, color spectrograms, signal averaging, signal generation, and advanced options for lab or personal use. You can open saved files, including standard WAV files collected elsewhere, to analyze waveform, spectrum, or spectrogram displays of file data. Even many unsupported formats can be opened via manual selection of format parameters. ..... [Search for ASK file errors with this scan.]
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
	Audio	None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 25493 last modified on 2008-08-08.

System Info for File Extension .ASK

FILExt has been given permission to display the file extension database produced by the Associate This! program. Some of that data has already been included into the main FILExt database; but, not all. Those entries which have not yet been incorporated are shown below in the hope that they will be of some use. Data collected by FILExt on registered file extensions from user systems is also in the display. Be aware this is raw data which may require further research on your part to fully understand. In particular, look at the Program ID. Often a company will put the program's name into the short ID that Windows uses to open registered file extensions. If that's not the case, look at the complete path to the EXE file. Often, programs will install themselves into directories that give either the program or company name. The program name itself may also be used as the EXE file name. These listings are particularly important since they represent listings that are in actual use by users who have sumbitted data to FILExt and therefore these listings can point you to the most likely candidate should there be multiple entries in the FILExt main database.

Program Name and MIME Type Info for File Extension .ASK

FILExt has been given permission to display a Program Name/MIME type database collected by Anthony R. Nemmer. Some of that data has already been included into the main FILExt database; but, not all. Those entries which have not yet been incorporated are shown below in the hope that they will be of some use. Be aware this is raw data which may require further research on your part to fully understand. MIME type listings often contain the name of a program or, at a minimum, a type of file as the leading text in the MIME type.

General Info

• If the extension you are looking for is of the form .??_ the file is likely a compressed file and part of an install routine. When the install program runs it will expand the file and replace the underscore with the proper letter for the file type.
• If the file is sent as an audio file with any three-character extension it may be a dictation file where the extension is the dictator's initials; playable by BCB Voice Systems software (see ??? extension). The file could likewise be a dictation file in TrueSpeech format. Use Windows Sound Recorder and/or Media Player to play these back.
• If the extension you are looking for has a number at the end or is only a number and there were no results consider entering the same extension format using zero or one as some programs produce numbered split files but when the split can be extensive (e.g., .000-.999) only the first entry is in the database.

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