What Is File Extensions?

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By this, you will know about what is file extensions, their types and file extensions facts. Why its use in your Microsoft Operating System Windows.

What is File Extensions –

File – A Computer file is a block of arbitrary information or resource for storing information, which is available to a computer program and is usually based on some kind of durable storage.

Extension – A file name extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to indicate the encoding convention (file format) of its contents.

In A Simple Way –

File Extensions –

Suppose you are creating a paint so when you click on to save your file then that particular application or software use an extension (file format) to save your file this extension help to understand the characteristics of a file & uses. for example – “images.png” so .png is the extension of file name.

“A file extension Or file name extension helps the Microsoft Windows operating system to identify the file of type.”

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Types Of File Extensions Are –

Some of the most common file extensions are listed below.

1 – Text File Extension –

• .docx – Text document Or Microsoft Office Word 2007 for windows/2008 for mac.
• .doc – Microsoft Word document.
• .dat – data file.
• .rtf – Rich text format.
• .txt – plain text file.

2 – Audio Files Extension –

• .mp3 – Mp3 audio file.
• .amr – for Gsm based mobiles phones.
• .aac – Advanced audio coding (usually in an MPEG-4 container)
• .rm – Real media.
• .ra – Real audio file.
• .wma – Windows media audio file
• .swa – Macromedia sholwave.
• .amr – Adaptive multi-rate codec file.
• .midi – midi file.

3- Image File Extension –

• .jpg or .jpeg – Joint photographic experts group – a glossy image format widely used to display photographic images.
• .bmp – Bitmap file.
• .tif – Tagged image file.
• .png – Portable Network Graphics.
• .gif – Graphics interchange format.

4 – Vedio Files Extension –

• .avi – Audio video interleave.
• .dat – Digital Audio tape.
• .flv – Flash video ( Encodes to run in a flash animation)
• .3gp – ( the most common vedio format for cell phones)
• .mkv – Matroska is a container format, which enables any video format such as MPEG-4 Asp Or AVC to be used along with other content such as sutitles and detailed meta information.
• .rm – Real media.
• .wma – Windows media video.
• .mp4 – MPEG-4 video file.
• .mpg – Movie file.
• .mpeg – MPEG movie.
• .mpeg4 – MPEG-4 file.

5 – Web Files Extension –

• .html – Hyper text markup language.
• .xhtml – Extensible hypertext markup language.
• .xml – Extensible markup language.
• .asp – Microsoft active server page.
• .aspx – Microsoft actie server page.
• .jsp – java server pages.

6 – Compressed Files Extension –

• .rar – Winzip file.
• .win – Win rar file.
• .zip – Extented zip file.

7 – Backup Files Extension –

• bak – Backup file.
• .tmp – Temporary file.

8 – Other Extension –

• .pdf – Portable document format file.
• .torrent – Bit torrent file ( utility Software )
• .sys – System files.
• .cab – Cabinet file.
• .dbs – Outlook express email folders.
• .tmp – Temporary files.
• .drv – Device driver file.
• .mdb – Data base.
• .pdb – Programmable data file.
• .exe – Executable file.

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