Internet explorer can take the website out of the browser and can pin it to the taskbar for quick access. This allows the website to work as an application rather than a page.
The user can pin an intranet website to the taskbar so that user does not have to reenter URL each time to visit the website. The user drags and drops the URL of the website to the task bar and it is pinned to task bar. On the back end, Windows create a file with WEBSITE extension which contains URL of the pinned website in plain text format.
In addition to the problem described above, i.e. the lack of the appropriate application to support the .WEBSITE file, there may be several reasons that cause problems with opening and operation of the data format:
A quite common problem is the lack of application in the appropriate version. Even if you have an application, with the help of which you should open the .WEBSITE file, you may have a problem with it because of its version. Perhaps in previous versions the application has not yet supported the .WEBSITE file, so download the update and check again.
If you have already installed the appropriate application, and it is the correct version, the file may not open correctly, because the operating system does not have information that this program supports the file. So you need to "show" which program the computer should use. To do this:
It also happens that the file you want to open is corrupt and therefore there is no such possibility. In this situation, you should find its different version, or ask a person from whom you got, to send it again.
There may be several reasons why you cannot open the file with .WEBSITE extension. Directly on this website you can find a solution of the most common problem with the .WEBSITE file – that you do not have on your computer the appropriate program to open the file.