The Three Letter File Extensions Post 1

There are always way to many times people download a file of the Internet, which they delete straight away because their system does not recognize it, others would call some tech person that they know and ask about it or search the Internet for help. We are really tired of explaining this over and over, so we put up these two little posts that will help you solve your problems.

We want to make it very clear right now, enabling file extensions in Windows can be VERY dangerous to your system!

Every new computer or a fresh install of Windows does not show file extensions by default, it is disabled for one good reason. Once you enable file extensions, you can accidentally rename them too.

If this option is disabled, users can't see and can't overwrite the three letters of almost every filename. If you rename your simple text file into text.txt2, Windows will open and show your text.

If you enable this option and look at the same file now, it would be text.txt2.txt and renaming it to text.txt2 or just text again may render the file to be unusable. Of course, most files, you can rename back and they will work again. You can always disable this option, but if you do leave it on, be careful not to rename or move any system files!

If you want to enable this option, you have to have any Windows folder open on your desktop. In the File menu select Tools, then Folder Options. This will bring up a little settings window, select View tab and in advanced settings, without scrolling down, you should see the lowest one "Hide extensions for known files", check that box and click Ok. Here you can also select to show hidden files, folders and system protected files. You can see them easily, they usually are see-through or have blue names.

You should now be able to see all these different file types that you have in Windows Operating System. This will solve the first problem, now you know that you have some type of unreadable file. You can call your tech friend and ask for info on that file type and why it does not work on your machine or you could read our second post, in which we will explain how to open any file that you may have. Be sure to read it!

Continue to Three Letter File Extensions Post 2