ICS stands for ICalendar Calendar File Format.These types of files are universal calendar files, which are used by most of the popular calendar applications such as Outlook, Apple Calendar and Google Calendar. Calendar files contain summary, title, start time and end time of a calendar event.
The ICS file format begins with the BEGIN:VACALENDAR tag. This is followed by the VERSION, PRODID and the Title of the event. The VEVENT tag then specifies the start of event details. The event details are specified using UID, DTSTAMP, ORGANIZER, DTSTART, DTEND and SUMMARY tags. Every ICS file ends with END: VCALENDAR tag.
| File type | ICalendar Calendar File Format (Microsoft Outlook, Apple ICal) |
| Developer | Lack of information |
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While searching for an answer to the question - How to open the ICS file? - you probably found websites, which offer software that was able to open any file extension. Do not be fooled, there is no one program that will allow you to work with any file extension, including the ICS file. Each program contains a different type of data and you need specialized software to properly work with the ICS file. Here is a list of programs that are designed to work with the ICS file - remember, these applications are able to open at most a few file extensions, they are designed to work with a specific data type.
If after installing the program from a list, you still cannot open a file with the ICS extension, the reason may be that the file is damaged. The solution may be to find a new copy of the ICS file you want to open
In this case, the easiest way is to use the tool built into the operating system for association of the ICS file with applications to support it. Double click on the file you cannot open - the operating system will display a list of programs that are likely to work with your ICS file. Choose one of them, or select the location on a disk where you installed one of the applications from our list. Windows should then open the ICS file using the program installed earlier.
Entries containing links of the ICS file extensions with applications is located in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. If you do not know how to get to the Windows Registry, or how to make changes in it, ask a specialist for help. Lack of knowledge on the subject may cause irreversible changes on your computer.
There may be a situation when a computer virus passes itself off as the ICS file. In this case, such a file will definitely not be opened. Download a good antivirus program and scan the ICS file mentioned. If the antivirus application detects malicious data, it may signify that the ICS file is infected.
| ICONBOX | IconBox |
| ICNS | Apple Icon Graphic Format |
| ICW | Microsoft Internet Explorer Internet Connection Wizard |
| ICR | Image Comparer Result |
| ICALEVENT | Apple ICal Document Format |
| ICN | Icon Format |
| ICOA | IBM Image Object Content Architecture (IOCA) Bitmap Graphics |
| ICML | Adobe InDesign Format |
| ICON | Icon Image Format |
| ICHAT | Apple IChat Saved History Format |
