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File extensions are usually three or four letter codes at the end of computer file names that tell to operating system (Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 95/98/ME/2000,MAC OS X, Linux and Unix operating systems etc.) what kind of file they are dealing with. Tell to OS which applications can automaticaly open or edit the file.
We researched and collected a very large list of the file extensions and many with detailed explanations of each file type and the way they are used today. We have also tried to include a few of the common software programs that are associated with each of these file extension types.

If you find a file in your computer with an unknown file extension, you can look up the information about desired file extension and its file associations using File-extensions.org website.
Simply use the search box in the top-left corner of each page tosearch for a specific file extension. You may also view an alphabetical list of extensions using the starting letters above, or browse extensions by file type categories using the green navigation menu at the left side of the page.

Recently updated file extensions:

Existing and new file extensions are updated or added very often.

odt file icon file extension odt - OpenOffice.org Writer text document

#$- file icon file extension #$- - Unknown or unassigned file extension.

ost file icon file extension ost - Microsoft Outlook/Inbox offline folder

torrent file icon file extension torrent - BitTorrent information file

art file icon file extension art - Another Ray Tracer

afm file icon file extension afm - Adobe font metrics file

adi file icon file extension adi - AutoCAD device-independent binary plotter format

emf file icon file extension emf - Enhanced Windows Metafile picture

mif file icon file extension mif - FrameMaker interchange format

pro file icon file extension pro - Pro/ENGINEER configuration file

dwg file icon file extension dwg - AutoCAD Drawing

dwg file icon file extension dwg - AutoCAD Drawing Database

lasso file icon file extension lasso - Lasso database driven web page

pdf file icon file extension pdf - Portable document format: Adobe Acrobat File

zip file icon file extension zip - Compressed ZIP archive file and compressed folder

wq1 file icon file extension wq1 - Spreadsheet; Quatro Pro for MS-DOS

fm file icon file extension fm - FileMaker Pro database file

fp file icon file extension fp - FileMaker Pro database file

mdb file icon file extension mdb - Microsoft Access database

wdb file icon file extension wdb - Microsoft Works database

cwk file icon file extension cwk - Claris Works data file

agdb file icon file extension agdb - ANSYS DesignSpace

docx file icon file extension docx - Microsoft Word 2007 XML based document file format

daf file icon file extension daf - Digital Anchor data file

mkv file icon file extension mkv - Matroska video-audio multimedia file

mp4 file icon file extension mp4 - MPEG-4 file format

xls file icon file extension xls - Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet

rar file icon file extension rar - WinRAR compressed archive

sqx file icon file extension sqx - SQX Archiver Compressed Archive file

bzip2 file icon file extension bzip2 - Compressed archive file

bix file icon file extension bix - BIX compressed file archive

axx file icon file extension axx - ARJ compressed file multi-volume archive

arx file icon file extension arx - Compressed archive

arc file icon file extension arc - Compressed file archive

acp file icon file extension acp - Compressed file archive

777 file icon file extension 777 - 777 compressed file archive

zoo file icon file extension zoo - Compressed file

wba file icon file extension wba - Winace Zip File

daa file icon file extension daa - PowerISO Direct-Access-Archive file

amr file icon file extension amr - Adaptive Multi-Rate compressed audio

cnr file icon file extension cnr - Pegasus Mail mail message stored in Systemwide folder

cnb file icon file extension cnb - Pegasus Mail mail message stored in Noticeboard

pm$ file icon file extension pm$ - Pegasus Mail temporary file

pmu file icon file extension pmu - Pegasus Mail keyboard macro

bu file icon file extension bu - Pegasus Mail temporary file

cnx file icon file extension cnx - Pegasus Mail file

§§§ file icon file extension §§§ - Pegasus Mail temporary file

pmk file icon file extension pmk - Pegasus Mail keyboard file

pme file icon file extension pme - Pegasus Mail filter rule files

pmc file icon file extension pmc - Pegasus Mail folder cache file

pfc file icon file extension pfc - Pegasus Mail message cache file

phc file icon file extension phc - Pegasus Mail header cache file

pnx file icon file extension pnx - Pegasus Mail RTF version of queued and draft message

pnv file icon file extension pnv - Pegasus Mail stored searches file

pns file icon file extension pns - Pegasus Mail formatted signatures

pnp file icon file extension pnp - Pegasus Mail POP3 server side filter rule

pnm file icon file extension pnm - Pegasus Mail IMAP message flag status

pnc file icon file extension pnc - Pegasus Mail content control set definition

pmx file icon file extension pmx - Pegasus Mail outgoing message

pmw file icon file extension pmw - Pegasus Mail draft stored outgoing message

File extension of the day:

Random daily pick from file-extensions.org database.

sxc file icon.sxc - OpenOffice.org 1.0 Spreadsheet file

Associated application: OpenOffice Calc, OpenOffice

Help how to open: Use OpenOffice Calc (a spreadsheet application from OpenOffice suite) to open the file.

Help how to convert this file type: not available

Help how to backup this file type: not available

Database contains 1 records with the same file extension name.
Last update on November 15, 2007.

[file extension sxc]


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For an overview of common file types,
visit the common file extensions page, which includes a list of the most important computer file formats you should know.

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Show file extensions at your Windows operating system

By default, file extensions are disabled at Windows systems. What you can't see and you don't know about it, can hurt you one day. This allows virus and malicious software writers to distribute executable files disguised as something non-executable. For example, an .exe file might appear to be an common text file (some-filename.txt[.exe] with hidden extension). We think that hidding file extensions by default is wrong decision from Microsoft, but they are still disabled also at new Windows Vista. For more information visit Executable file extensions page.

Most searched file extensions:

daa file icon file extension daa - PowerISO Direct-Access-Archive

rar file icon file extension rar - RAR compressed archive - backup file

bin file icon file extension bin - Binary file (mostly disc image file)

uif file icon file extension uif - MagicISO Universal Image Format File

file extension torrent - BitTorrent information file extension

file extension 7z - Compressed archive file extension (like .zip, .rar etc.)

flac file icon file extension flac - Audio files encoded by Flac (lossless audio codec)

theme thm file icon file extension thm - Sonyericsson mobile phone theme file

amr file icon file extension amr - Adaptive Multi-Rate compressed audio

file extension 3gp - Multimedia files for wireless networks, mobile phones videos etc

file extension pdf - Portable document format: Adobe Acrobat File

file extension 3dr - 3DMark result

wps file icon file extension wps - Microsoft Works document

flash video file icon file extension flv - Flash video

file extension wps - RockBox (MP3 player firmware) theme file

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