The Windows Feature You SHOULDN'T Ignore - File Extensions Explained

Neverwinter Nights (from Bioware) and The Sims 2 were the games which taught me how important it is to not let latter versions of Windows hide your file extensions! "Let's see...this directory has three files named 'NWN'. Which one do I double-click to start the game?"

Did Microsoft ever have a good reason to hide the file extensions? 🤨

.vbs stands for vinereal butthole surplus. Avoid it unless you want your computer to have ass aids

i dont get how a file can be a .txt.vbs like how are there multiple file extensions?

Wait you can show extensions I just check properties :(

I, and many other people have noticed that all image files on our computers (I have windows 10) have changed to a file called Unhandled File Extension Handler, and there doesn't seem to be a fix, and I can't find anything out there to help me. I've tried resetting files to Windows default, and tried restoring to another time, and a few other basic things. Apparently it's a virus, but I don't have any viruses on my computer, and it could be ransomware, but nothing has come of that yet either. Is my only solution to reinstall windows? I hope some nerd comes up with a solution soon, I'm not the only one asking for help. If you have any ideas, can you respond, and maybe make a video too 🤔 thanks

its like explaining to people to eat a banana you need to first remove its skin.

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I’m too old for this, I guess.
I mean: the mere fact that you guys need to make a video about file extensions...
This knowledge should be encoded into our human DNA, by now. We all should intuitively know this without having to be told or taught.
Halas, such is not the case. Good job. :-)

If I would code an OS I would ignore File extension, I would make that my OS recognizes the type, from its own

i was looking for this! .VBS is a fake error or a real text to speech or normel speech file! That means its safe (i have tried it out)

So, how do you make your own?

What is a MIC. file?

.WTF file is a World Of Warcraft Save file

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Thank you the video really helped.

Did you seriously say download files from the internet and change the extensions? ... ummm......

Amiga had an interesting way of doing things.
Some files could and did have file extension, but since most users were using an operating system on floppy disk, knowing what all the file extensions should be used with weren't stored, because the OS could be older than your program, and likely on a different floppy disk.
There was one file extension that always existed though, .info, and basically every file that was saved, also had another file of the same name, with .info tacked on the end.
trying to open a file would cause the OS to look at a file's .info file, which would hold information like, custom icon, and what program to try and open it with, including the name of the disk, and directory of the app.
Of course this is a system 35+ years old now, but, makes sense when you consider a floppy disk as your main storage system.

In the early 2000's I used to change a .jpg to a .doc when submitting a report at school when I was about to miss the submission deadline.
Always worked to fool the teacher into thinking it was a software issue.

This video is hilarious if you're a Linux dude.

Lol the time is 420

Cracked me up.. when I thought there could be a file extension named wtf haha

Having the file type information encoded in the name is a very bad design. macOS and Linux use a better solution, the file type is identified by the first 4 bytes of the file content. The type of the file is not a property of the name but the property of the content, and the solution that uses UNIX always works, even if the file is trasmitted on a network or in a way where the metadata (including the name) is lost.

Also it's safer, how many time on Windows you had problems because someone opened a document.pdf.exe? (and of course the .exe is hidden by Windows with default settings). On UNIX you have the concept of executable privileges, a file is not executed simply because for some reason it happens to have .exe at the end of the name, but it must have a particular privilege set. Renaming a file (or downloading a file with a .exe at the end from the internet) doesn't make it executable, but the user must set the privilege expicitally.

I despise Microsoft for pretending their software is stable enough that normal people will never have to dive into any of this. All they've done with their default Windows' settings that hide all this stuff is cripple people at a low tech level. You have to know about file extensions or you'll soon be helpless and dependent on someone who does. And eventually, you'll have to know about Windows OS files too, or you'll never graduate from newbie to someone who's got a chance of fixing their own machine. Even the way they encourage you to just depend on a program's default save directory instead of learning the file system, and proactively naming your own save folders is absolutely devastating to the people I have to bail out on a regular basis.

Linux / Unix uses content instead of the file extension... 🤦‍♂️ But the windows approach with the extension has its appeal more or less.

And then there is linux. It doesn't have file extensions, and it's really cancer to use.

Welcome to 1981, folks.

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What's the proper file extension for '.NoShitSherlock'.... ???

420

This isn't a Windows feature.
... stop.

what the fuck

that's so windows biased - what about magic numbers and file type recognition based on that?

Linux: What are file extensions? (Now yes ik that linux uses them but they arent used as much as in windows)

fuck u james.

Ever heard of file magic? It's not so inefficient to look in files to see what type of file it really is.

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I got an ad with linus in it

Why Microsoft insists on hiding the extension still, frustrates me.

Click bait

How do I get 24 hours and 5 minutes in a day?

Newb content, but not everyone grew up exploring the ins and out of windows 98 thru XP