File Extensions and You

When you come up against file extensions that Windows doesn't know what to do with, your day can get bad real quick.

This can also happen more often than you think, as applications get more and more complicated. It can get stressful, too. File extensions today are associated with very specific programs: Word processors, spreadsheets, all sorts of media, and vast and various combinations of those and others.

This is where Paretologic comes in, and makes searching for the right program for specific file extensions easy. Sure, we can, most of us, figure out that a .doc or .docx file is for Word, while a .jpg is a picture and .wmv is a video. If you're stuck, though (and particularly if Windows is stuck), it can be real handy to have a nice reference.

Simpler Times, Fewer Extensions

If you've spent the years I have messing around with computers, you remember when there were only a few file extensions. These days, though, file extensions almost seem archaic, a remnant of the distant past. The Windows operating system has automated so many tasks we used to have to stop to think about. Click and you're on your way, without really having to think about what the software is doing in the background.

File extensions are necessary but often invisible to the casual user. We get used to not thinking about them. When we have to, though, Paretologic has made it easy.