Computer Important Windows File Extensions

 Computers related Important Windows File Extensions are: 

<All related extensions always start with DOT like .exe>

.AIFF / .AIF Audio Interchange File Format

.AU     Basic Audio

.AVI     Multimedia Audio/Video

.BAT     PC batch file

.BMP     Windows BitMap

.CLASS or .JAVA         Java files

.CSV         Comma separated, variable length file (Open in Excel)

.CVS         Canvas

.DBF         dbase II, III, IV data

.DIF         Data Interchange format

.DOC or .DOCX         Microsoft Word for Windows/Word97

.EPS         Encapsulated PostScript

.AIFF or .AIF Audio Interchange File Format

.AU     Basic Audio

.AVI     Multimedia Audio/Video

.BAT     PC batch file

.BMP     Windows BitMap

.CLASS or .JAVA         Java files

.CSV     Comma separated, variable length file (Open in Excel)

.CVS     Canvas

.DBF        dbase II, III, IV data

.DIF Data Interchange format

.DOC or .DOCX Microsoft Word for Windows/Word97

.EPS Encapsulated PostScript

.EXE PC Application

.FM3      Filemaker Pro databases (the numbers following represent the version #)

.GIF         Graphics Interchange Format

.HQX         Macintosh BinHex

.HTM or .HTML         Web page source text

.JPG or JPEG     JPEG graphic

.MAC         MacPaint

.MAP         Web page imagemap

.MDB MS Access database

.MID or .MIDI     MIDI sound

.MOV or .QT     QuickTime Audio/Video

.MTB or .MTW     MiniTab

.PDF         Acrobat -Portable document format

.PNG         Portable Network Graphics

.PPT or .PPTX     PowerPoint

.PSD         Adobe PhotoShop

.PSP         PaintShop Pro

.QXD         QuarkXPress

.RA         RealAudio

.RTF         Rich Text Format

.SIT         Stuffit Compressed Archive

.TAR         UNIX TAR Compressed Archive

.TIF         TIFF graphic

.TXT         ASCII text (Mac text does not contain line feeds--use DOS Washer Utility to fix)

.WAV Windows sound

.WK3 Lotus 1-2-3 (the numbers following represent the version #)

.WKS MS Works

WPD or .WP5     WordPerfect (the numbers following represent the version #)

.XLS or .XLSX     Excel spreadsheet

.ZIP                 PC Zip Compressed Archive