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Animated cursor

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File extension ANI - Animated cursor

File type specification:

Graphics file type icon Graphics file type

ani file icon: ani file icon

What is ANI file extension:

The ANI file extension is traditionally used for animated cursors in Windows environment.

 An .ani file is a structured format (Microsoft RIFF) that contains information about the animation (author & title, steps, length & order of each step...) followed by several frames stored in the icon format.
Each frame/step in an animated cursor is displayed during a short time (delay or length): this is the frame timing. This time is measured in jiffies; 1 jiffy=1/60th of a second~16,66ms.

If your .ani files are correctly associated, you can preview them using Windows Explorer: just hit an animated cursor file and select the File Properties shell menu command. Windows will then display the animated cursor on the Properties tab.

The default software that works with ani file format:

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Company or developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems developed by the Microsoft Corp.. The first Windows was released in 1985 as a GUI add-on to MS-DOS.  MS-DOS based Windows versions were developed to 2000, when was released the last version called Windows ME. Windows based on NT core started in 1993. Windows NT family are developed to these days, the latest version is called Windows 7. On NT core are also developed server versions of Microsoft Windows. The latest version is Windows 2008 Server. For portable devices and minimalistic computers, Microsoft develops Windows CE operating system.

Help how to open ANI files:

You can preview *.ani files Windows Explorer. But you can also open it in some image editors, such as XnView.

How to convert file with extension ANI:

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File identification strings:

HEX code: 52 49 46 46
ASCII code: RIFF

List of software associated to the .ani file extension

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: like open ani file, edit ani file, convert ani file, view ani file, play ani file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).

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