After downloading any particular year's file. Close out of the on-line server and using the right click of the mouse on the start button at the bottom of screen, click on "Explore". When the split screen comes up, go to where ever you downloaded the file to. I had set up the folders with the years under a main folder for "TX Indexes" on my 2nd HD and then created a folder for each year that I downloaded (15 years worth). To open the file, just double-click on the file that has an extension of .exe and it will extract itself keeping the new file with a .txt extension in the same folder. After doing this extraction, close the Explore screen. Click "Start" and go to Programs to Accessories and look for 'WordPad". These files are txt files and will open normally under WordPad as they are long files, all alphabetized. I found my birth record listed correctly with my parents listed correctly and my birthdate and county listed correctly. What I did notice was that not all the counties are listed though. Hopefully, that will be updated someday. Good luck. Sue in CA