In most cases, the majority of the file extensions you encounter on your computer are already associated with a program or protocol. When a file extension is not associated with a program, however, ...

Red Eye Rose received a file with a strange extension. She doesn’t know into what program she should load it. Neither does Windows. I doubt that anyone knows all of the file extensions used since the ...

Every day, we come across different types of file extensions while working on a computer. The file extensions tell an operating system about the type of file so that the OS could select the right app ...

The default setting for Windows is to not display a file's extension, which is the last period in a file name followed by 2 or 3 letters. Therefore, when viewing files in Windows you would only see ...

When you double-click on a file in Windows, it will automatically open a default program that is configured to manage these types of files. It is common, though, want or need to use a different ...

Most of you might have seen CRDOWNLOAD files while downloading video, music files, document files, etc. They are temp files created by Chrome when you download a file. In fact, they are created by all ...

Microsoft Access, available as part of Microsoft Office, allows business owners to manage their databases and develop software applications. Prior to 2007, Access saved certain database information in ...

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