SSK Converter

Extract text from SSK files

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How to extract text from your SSK file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SSK file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert SSK to another file type

To convert your SSK file to another format, you need Windows Media Player or other Settings software.

Convert a file to SSK

To convert other file formats to the "User Interface Theme" file type, you need software like Windows Media Player or a similar tool.

About SSK files

The .SSK file extension serves two distinct but related purposes: it is primarily a skin archive for Windows Media Player (often created via Stardock SkinStudio) or a visual theme for the productivity tool Stickies.

The Problem: Users often find old .SSK files and cannot view them because they are proprietary containers. For Stickies users, the file is simply a locked ZIP archive containing images and XML configuration data, but the unique extension prevents standard tools from opening it. For Windows Media Player users, the file is a legacy skin definition that modern media players often fail to recognize or render correctly.

The Solution:

For Stickies Files: The most practical conversion is to rename the extension from .SSK to .ZIP. This allows you to open the file with any archiver (like 7-Zip) and extract the internal BMP or JPG assets and configuration scripts.
For WMP/Stardock Files: These are best viewed by installing the original software or SkinStudio. Converting them is difficult without the original authoring tools, but they can sometimes be treated as archives to recover graphic assets.
Legacy Note: A small percentage (0.9%) of these files are vector drawings from SmartSketch (the precursor to Flash), which are incompatible with skin converters.

Convert.Guru analyzes your SSK file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted PSD, PNG, B64, ALZ and A01 files.

FAQ

If you want to convert SSK file to SVG, AI, EPS, PDF, JPG, CDR, WMF, EMF, SWF, FLA, XFL or SKETCH, you can use Windows Media Player or similar software from the "Application Interface Skin" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert AFPUB, EPS, FIG, VSD, SKETCH, VDX, AFPHOTO, PDF, AFDESIGN, SVG, VSDX or AI files to SSK, try Windows Media Player or another comparable tool in the "Application Interface Skin" category.

The SSK Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our SSK converter.