Red Eye Rose received a file with a strange extension. She doesn't know into what program she should load it. Neither does Windows.

What type of files can you open on ChromeOS? Your tried and true Chromebook can open almost all your essential documents, videos, images, and compressed files.

If you can't open a file on your computer, don't give up right away. These tricks will give you a fighting chance of accessing or recovering its contents.

Need to use third-party programs to open files on your PC? Here's how to change file associations in Windows 10 and choose which apps open which file types.

How to change the default program a file opens with in Windows 7 When you open files that have a particular file extension, Windows will look at its configuration to determine what the default ...

To show the file type extension or file extension in Windows 11/10, you need to open the Folder Options panel and remove the tick from the Hide extensions for known file types checkbox.

So you have this file and you don’t know how to open it. The person who sent it to you doesn’t seem to know either, and your deadline is ticking nearer. What do you do? Head to Go2Convert.com ...

Windows makes it easy for you to open up these files by setting up default programs for each file type -- images files, for example, will open by default in the Windows 10 Photos app.

How to open a file with a different program on your Mac When you double-click a file on your Mac, the operating system will automatically open the file using the program assigned to that type of ...

Disabling File-Type Warnings Close the program you are using to open the file that gives you the "Always ask before opening this type of file" message, if it's currently running.