Microsoft dial-up phonebook
File type: Settings, options, themes or skins file
Files with pbk file extension are related to the Microsoft dial-up phonebook format.
Found 4 different file type records with the same pbk filename suffix.
File type category:
Settings, options, themes or skins file
Date updated: December 30, 2024
The pbk file extension is associated with Microsoft Remote Access Phonebook, which is integral part of Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Rasphone.exe is the program that handles pbk files in Windows.
Dial-up Phonebook stores dial-up connections settings, logins, passwords, etc.
Use Rasphone app to open *.pbk files.
Probably cannot be converted to anything else.
Software applications that can open pbk files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create pbk files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that manage or store settings in pbk files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving pbk files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Document file
Date updated: June 22, 2019
The pbk file extension is associated with the Adobe Pixel Bender.
Pixel Bender kernel language is used to implement image processing algorithms (filters or effects) in a hardware-independent manner.
The pbk file contains kernel data.
Use Adobe Pixel Bender Toolkit.
Probably cannot be converted to other formats.
Software applications that can open pbk files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that can edit pbk files:
Microsoft Windows
Software capable of saving pbk files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create pbk files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving pbk files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: September 27, 2026
The PBK file extension is associated with 32bit Fax, an ElectraSoft fax application for Microsoft Windows. The file contains the phone book data used to select fax recipients and manage contacts.
This is a program-specific data file rather than a document intended for general-purpose applications.
Open the PBK file from the ElectraSoft Fax application on Microsoft Windows. The program should load the phone book as part of its contact or phone book functions.
Other applications generally cannot open this ElectraSoft Fax phone book format correctly.
Use the phone book features in ElectraSoft Fax to copy or re-enter contacts in another format if the application provides a suitable export option.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving pbk files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: June 27, 2019
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
The pbk file extension is related to HP-95 device. The HP 95LX was the first MS-DOS-based palmtop PC by Hewlett Packard and has been introduced in April 1991. Project name at HP was "Jaguar".
The 95LX has MS-DOS 3.3 in ROM, along with powerful PIM applications. Hardware is based on a NEC V20 CPU (CMOS version) running at 5.37 MHz. There are 512kB and 1MB models available, graphics adapter is an MDA, no CGA as the newer HP palmtops have, with 16 x 40 characters and 128 x 240 pixels.
The pbk file contains saved phone book.
This file type was most likely only usable in the original HP-95 device.
Unlikely any conversion is possible, give how old this file type is.
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