All you computer experts out there?

Question

Could you explain to me what all the different types of files, are, and what they are used for?

E.g Winrar?What thats?

Whats an iso image?

Etc etc

The more the merier!!

10pts to most detailed:)

Thanks

Answer 1

winrar handles different compressed files, winrar also has its own compression algorithm, one of the most used on windows btw

winrar uses files with .rar suffix, but can alos handle zip files and lots of others

.iso is a disk image file, it can be a image of dvd, cd or even hard disk. usually you would write the image on a disk but incidentally winrar also enables you to open these and extract files.

filename suffixes(.doc .txt .jpg .mp3 .avi .mkv .torrent and so on to infinity) just tells operating system what program to use to open the file and serves as a indicator for the user about what kind of file it is

also there are lots of sites that index filename suffixes and what programs use these files like http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=^A

Answer 2

Winrar is a file compression utility. It is used to compress a file or group of files in a folder with the hopes of making the overall size smaller. Once the files are compressed, they need to be uncompressed again using either Winrar or Winzip. There are other file compression utilities available as well, but those two have been around for ages. You can download Winrar at http://www.download.com.



An ISO image is another type of file compression, but it is usually used to make a bootable CD. Alcohol120% is a good utility that can be obtained from download.com as well.

Answer 3

Winrar is not a filetype, but rather an application to compress/extract a file type with .rar extension.



ISO is a disc image file.



Just ask what different file types you want to know and I'll try to answer but I don't feel like listing all the thousands of different file extensions out there.

Answer 4

winrar is a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP Files.



An ISO image is an archive file (also known as a disk image) of an optical disc in a format defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

Answer 5

I could do a lot of typing, but its already been done.

Checkout winrar website. Basically its a file compression program. Squeezes big stuff down to little size.

http://www.rarsoft.com/



An iso is a file that contains an image of a cdrom.

wikipedia has an excellent explanation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_image

Answer 6

Jonny, do your own homework! ;)