Finding Windows XP My Documents File Extensions

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Gerard Mainardi and we're talking today about how to organize your documents in Microsoft Windows XP. Remember Microsoft Windows XP is trademark of Microsoft Corporation and I am not affiliated with Microsoft Corporation. OK. Now we just got finished talking about ways to search for different files. The most important thing to know is what kind of file you are searching for. Let's say you want to find all of a certain type of image on your computer. Well you don't know how to do that unless you know exactly what that type of image is. Let's take a look. Open your my documents here as usual. Go to start, go to my documents. Here is mine. Get right here. Now let's say we're looking for all of your mp3's. Well now you know these are called mp3's for a reason. That's because their file name extension is .mp3. Well how would you know this if you didn't know that in the first place? Let's go into my music here. Pull down the Skra folder. Here are all the songs. Now remember we did this in the beginning, but let's go over it again. On this bar right here, this is where you can view all the various file attributes that you have. Right click on it and make sure that type is checked off. If it's not, it won't be there. Turn it back on. There it is. That tells you exactly what it is. You can see here mp3 audio file. Mp3 in parenthesis there. That tells you exactly what you're searching for. Now some very common extensions that you might see. Mp3 or mpg which is mpegs for music and video files. Something like .bmp, .gif or .jpg. These are various types of image files that you might see, things you take on your digital camera. And then again if you're using something like Microsoft Word or Notepad to keep track of things, it'll be .doc or .text. Now this is useful because when you're searching and you use that asterisk wild card which you make by hitting shift 8, so you can search for let's say all of the, if your camera takes things in jpegs, do a search for * .jpg. You can check your files, know it's a jpg file, that way you can go and know exactly what you're searching for every time."