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The DESKTOP extension refers to files that store information about a specific item present in the program’s menu. The format contains data such as the name, the relevant icon to describe it, any command necessary to run it, and other pertinent items. These are most relevant for Linux and Unix systems with a GUI and […]

IES files, established by the Illuminating Engineering Society, are file extensions, not actual files. IES file extensions are text files with data on the measurements of light and light quantities to simulate lighting systems. This is done by architectural programs to understand how to display lighting properly on roads and buildings before they are installed. […]

An ISO file is an image file of an optical disk. They can be created by disk imaging software or from a group of files by optical dick authoring software. Or they can be created by converting another disk image file. ISO files are not compressed and they don’t use a specific format. They are […]

A Zip file as an archive compression file that supports lossless data compression. Created in 1989 and first used in the PKZIIP utility it has since come to be supported by both Windows and Apple. The zip archive can contain one or many file types. For example, you can compress jpg, png, pdf, etc, within […]