# What is "Studio.EXE" and why don't I have it?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-studio-exe-and-why-dont-i-have-it/137283
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 18, 2002, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-studio-exe-and-why-dont-i-have-it/137283 "2002-11-18T06:40:43Z")
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### Author:  [@Hayduke\_Lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hayduke_Lives)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2002, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-studio-exe-and-why-dont-i-have-it/137283/1 "2002-11-18T06:40:43Z")
When I try to download video clips, I get a warning message that says “STUDIO.EXE. NOT FOUND” and it won’t play the clip.
What is STUDIO EXE and why isn’t it on my computer, and how do I get it?
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### Author:  [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2002, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-studio-exe-and-why-dont-i-have-it/137283/2 "2002-11-18T06:48:02Z")
Sorry I can’t help you. I just wanted to let you know, I feel your pain. I’ve encountered errors identical to that in Windows so many times, it’s not funny.
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### Author:  [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2002, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-studio-exe-and-why-dont-i-have-it/137283/3 "2002-11-18T07:20:23Z")
I believe studio.exe is the new name for the Winamp executable. Have you recently uninstalled Winamp from this machine? Try reinstalling it if so.
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### Author:  [@LifeWillFall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeWillFall)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2002, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-studio-exe-and-why-dont-i-have-it/137283/4 "2002-11-18T07:51:26Z")
I don’t know if this is what you are looking for, but if you ever had winamp3 installed on your computer its filename is studio.exe and the file associations might still remain if you deleted it inproperly. Thats all I can think of… good luck
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### Author:  [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2002, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-studio-exe-and-why-dont-i-have-it/137283/5 "2002-11-18T12:57:42Z")
The other posters are right. Winamp 3 also plays videos, so it associates the extensions of _every_ video type (even ones that it **can’t play** like ASF, Microsoft’s steaming format) with itself. Then when you realize that Winamp3 sucks and you uninstall the program, it leaves those file types associated with a deleted program. Thanks, Nullsoft. Way to take a page from the _Real Player Book on How To Piss Off Users_.
To fix you problem, find the file you want to open in Windows Explorer. While holding down the Shift button, right click on the file and choose “Open With” from the resultant menu. From the “Choose Program” dialog box, make sure “Always open these files with this program” is checked and click on Windows Media Player to open the file. You’ll probably have to do this for the extensions AVI, MPG, MPEG, and ASF.
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### Author:  [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2002, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-studio-exe-and-why-dont-i-have-it/137283/6 "2002-11-18T17:33:34Z")
[aside] Winamp used to be a cool, underground-type product developed by enthusiastic geeks (I know, band name!) as far as I can tell. Then it somehow got bureaucratized, assimilated by Netscape/AOL and turned into another over-engineered bloated piece of crapware [/aside]
Hayduke - in general, when you are confronted with a mysterious program or file in Windows like this, a good first stop is Google groups - [groups.google.com](http://groups.google.com). Just use the name of the program (in this case, “studio.exe”) as your search keyword - you’ll almost always find many people have had the same problem.