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This is one of the easiest ways to change a file type on Windows 11/10. You just need to right-click on the file you want to change the type and rename the file type too in the process. There is no ...

Converting documents or any file to PDF is easier than it has ever been due to the number of tools available for such a purpose. Even Microsoft Word is capable of converting documents to PDF, but that ...

To convert a JPG to PDF, you'll need to change the file format on your computer's default photo-viewing app. For Windows users, this process is done in the built-in Photos app, and for macOS users 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.

When you double-click on a file in Windows 8, Windows will automatically open that file using a program that has been associated with that file's extension. There may come a time, though, that you ...

Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a world where there’s only one file format for every byte of audio-video content? Crashing back to reality though, we’re stuck with numerous codecs, and one of these ...

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, ...