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You can find computers just about everywhere that you go these days, and most are running the several flavors of the popular Windows operating system. The presence of computers in many diverse applications has caused many firms to develop software for special purposes and personal needs. When you are running any application and it is necessary to save some data, the program usually asks you for a file name. Such a file will always have an on the end, like yourfile.dat or yourfile.doc. The three letters added identifies the program that saved the file and the type of data format used internally to form the file. When you decide to uninstall an old and unused program some of the files that were once made by the program may remain in odd places. These files may not be recognized by the name or its extension, and you could be unsure about deleting them. You have to find out which program created those files and this information will which will assist you to decide whether to delete them safely.

Another situation might arise when someone sends you a file as an email attachment and you can’t open the file. It would be helpful to know what program can open the file, and whether it can be opened by some other program. The extensive and searchable list at file extensions will assist you to learn what program has an association with any unknown file extension. Many file extensions are listed, so simply locate the one that you wish to know about. The data listed will supply the name of the program and the way that the file is used.

One more type of file that exists in large numbers all Windows computers is the DLL file. In this case nearly every file in a certain folder might have a dll file extension. These files are all part of the system operating library. Many applications will add these files to your system during the installation process. Usually these files remain hidden behind the scenes, until one day when you might get a message stating that some DLL file cannot be located. In such a case it is useful to know which program is attempting to open the problem DLL file. There are multiple reasons why a DLL file can not be located, such as that a new program was installed and it overwrote a newer DLL file with an older, incompatible or obsolete version. Another possibility is that your antivirus program determined that the file was infected with a virus and it was moved and isolated. A database listing many files with a dll file extension can be used to learn as much as possible about the file in question.