Normally, if you change a file’s extension in Windows, it doesn’t do anything positive. It just makes the file open in the wrong programs that can’t decode what’s inside. However, [PortalRunner] has ...

Windows is the most popular operating system and is the first preference for people because of its user-friendly nature. It also supports a large ecosystem of freeware. One such we will see today is ...

Managing files on an iPhone has become significantly easier with recent updates to iOS, particularly with the introduction of the ability to change file extensions directly within the Files app.

Microsoft uses file associations to set default programs for opening different file types on all its operating systems. As a result, when you open a file, be it text, image, or document, on your ...

When you copy a file or folder to the same location on your local drive in Windows PC, a copy of that file or folder will be created with the – Copy extension added at the end of the file/folder name ...

When you double-click a file on your computer, Windows may launch an application to run or display the file. Windows knows how to do this because it maintains a list of known file types and the names ...

Each document that you have on your Mac is associated with a default application which macOS uses to open the file whenever you double-click on its icon in Finder. Sometimes you may have a legitimate ...

The default applications your computer uses to open files can be changed if you prefer to use something other than what is currently set. When working with PDF files, for example, you can change your ...

Have you ever tried to open a file in Windows 11, only for the completely wrong application to fire up and start loading it? That’s pretty frustrating, right? Well fortunately, there’s a cool little ...

Back in the pre-Mac OS X and macOS days, Apple’s System 9 and earlier relied on hidden metadata to associate files with apps. File extensions, those bits of text that follow a period at the end of a ...