There are loads of file types swimming around our computers at any given time — most of which exist to supplement the programs we use or play (or allow them to function in the first place). The most ...

A blog for IT professionals who work with Windows on large networks. As it happens, each and every user profile created on a particular running instance of Windows 10 has its own NTUser.dat file. This ...

Have you ever encountered a strange file with an NTUSER.DAT name on your Windows PC? Don't worry, it's not a virus, but quite an important file. In this article, we'll explain what it is and why you ...

Many times when receiving mail attachments with the new Exchange-enabled Microsoft Entourage v.X from Windows users, you will get a winmail.dat file that is inaccessible under Mac OS X. Alan Sill ...

We keep getting e-mail attachments in winmail.dat files and can’t open them. What’s going on? Is there a utility that can extract the attachments from these? When Outlook or Outlook Express users send ...

I am having a problem trying to get IIS 6.0 to serve several .exe files and a .dat file. The files are hosted in a virtual directory, with "scripts and executables" allowed, directory browsing allowed ...

Few days back, there was yet another "revolution" going on regarding my system and my personal principles; in this particular case the "minimalism principle", the principle regarding empty spaces and ...

A file server is a computer responsible for the storage and management of data files so that other computers on the same network can access the files. It enables users to share information over a ...