Windows System Image Manager (Windows SIM) quickly generates and manages unattended Windows Setup answer files in a graphical user interface (GUI). Answer files are XML-based files that are utilized during Windows Setup to configure and to modify the default Windows installation. Windows SIM uses the content of CLG files to give details in the data saved in an image file having a WIM extension. It validates the settings of an existing answer file against a Windows image (.wim) file, and views all the configurable component settings in such file. It can update an existing answer file easily and creates a configuration set that contains a complete set of portable folders with setup files; and adds third-party drivers, applications, or other packages to an answer file. Those details are the components and packages in the image file and such data is referred by Windows SIM to show the information even if with no access to the actual data stored image. CLG files are packed in the Microsoft Windows installation disks.
Microsoft Windows Operating System platforms mostly used files with .ANI extension, a graphic file format used for animated mouse cursors, which are also defined as Windows Animated Cursor. These files have the same functions with CUR file format or better known as the Static Cursor; its distinction is that being an animated cursor with the use of strings of images to show animation. The format is based on the Microsoft RIFF file format, which is utilized as storage for keeping the individual frames, which are typical Windows icons of the animation. This type of file is usually integrated in a customized theme for desktop, and is helpful to personalize the CPU system. Its final animation is designed with some icon frames are utilized for showing a single image after another to generate animation. Despite of a number of frames using the icon format, part of the stored data in the animated cursor file handle the order of the step, length, title, and the author of the animation.