DAT files are files with an extension that isn't associated with a specific application or program and can be almost any type of file including video, media or text. Gaining access to the DAT files ...

Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, ...

Change File Extension To easily convert JPEG (or JPG) to PNG, PNG to JPEG, or Google's WebP web file format to JPEG or PNG in Windows, open File Explorer, and make sure the box next to File name ...

Digital sound is nothing more than numbers. What separates one container from another is how those numbers are packed, how much data (if any) is thrown away, and which devices understand the result.

An increasing number of websites are adopting 'WebP' and 'AVIF' as the format for images inserted into pages. However, many image viewers and image editing software do not support WebP or AVIF, ...

CRDOWNLOAD are the 'byproducts' of Google's Chrome unsuccessful download, so they can't really be opened by a specific program. However, if the download was interrupted after the biggest part of the ...

When you want to decode, encode, transcode, mix, demix, stream, filter, and play, then FFmpeg is probably the best tool for the job, and it’s available for Windows 10 as a free download. However, it ...

ANSI and UTF-8 are two types of text encoding. The former is the default encoding that is used when you save text files created in Notepad, the text editor included in the Windows operating system.

AutoHotKey or AHK files are plain text file type that’s used by AutoHotkey, a free scripting tool for automating tasks in Windows. Whereas, EXE extension is used for executable files that can be ...

Image file formats are plentiful, from PNG and JPEG to the dreaded WebP. But what happens when you want to convert something from one file type to another? The conversion process was once an arduous ...