Bestow Upon Me Your Knowledge!

[NeedHacksBad]

Ok heres the deal here people. I got questions and somone out there has the answers.
Question 1 : What is it when you like lets say, open your program files in Windows and open a program file. You see a wordpad document so you open it but all it shows is a bunch of wierd symbols and shit. What is that?

Question 2 : Sometimes you see files that windows doesnt know what to open them with, yet the program somehow uses them. How the hell does it do that?

anyway yesh somone friggen tell me :P

[wr194t]

Ok heres the deal here people. I got questions and somone out there has the answers.
Question 1 : What is it when you like lets say, open your program files in Windows and open a program file. You see a wordpad document so you open it but all it shows is a bunch of wierd symbols and shit. What is that?

Question 2 : Sometimes you see files that windows doesnt know what to open them with, yet the program somehow uses them. How the hell does it do that?

anyway yesh somone friggen tell me :P

Answer 1: I think that might be some sort of coding/language that wordpad doesn't understand.

Answer 2: Windows might not know what to open the program with so it chooses the one most recommended.

I am not saying i am right but it is what i think.

[Tiresome]

I want to know too! Lol, the second question always confused me.

[wr194t]

Well i hope my answers helped in someway .

[Gourav2122]

i dont know what its called but this happens sometimes O_o i think it was registry file or was it a crack idk i forget gots me thinking i confused my self crap

[NeedHacksBad]

Hmmm its just odd..... oh well maybe when i become some super duper computer wiz i will learn.... im learning encryption and decryption at the moment.... shit then i gotta finish learning c++ i only made it half way thru the tut b4 i got bored

[SadisticGrin]

1: Yes it is a langueage that notepad does not understand.


2: Often it is not windows that uses the file but instead a program ON windows that uses the file.

Also not all files are opened with programs (such as .dll files) but instead give instructions for the computer to execute.

[BluSpex]

u seem to have answered q1

Q2 then....

some files are written and formatted in a way so that it works with the program it was made for.

lets say there is a umm... a {.blh} file, and it's purpose is to store a high score.

then i can make it so that it stores the same and then the score like so:
{Bluspex 100}
or to make it so that some one cant change it easily i same make it save the chars in this format:
{^B*l9u9s0p3e#x>.1g0&0}
see how it was saved? and u if u open it with word..that's what u see..and on top of that i can ecnrypt and choose to have it stored in a font and lang that normal progs dont understand but my prog can.