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 ...

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 ...

We’ve all seen mysterious .dat file attachments in our inboxes from time to time. In most cases the .dat attachment originates in Microsoft Outlook, which produces outgoing messages using a slightly ...

Q. I sometimes receive e-mail messages with a “winmail.dat” file attached that I cannot open. Why does this happen, and what can I do to fix it? A. The winmail.dat file usually appears because various ...

.dat can mean many things. data of any type quite often ends up with these extensions. How about using the app that created them? You can also try viewing them in notepad.

However, things changed with Windows 11/10/8. In Windows 11/10/8, Index.dat files are not used by Internet Explorer 10. The indexing functions are being implemented within a Microsoft database system.

DAT files are files with an extension that isn't associated with a specific application or program and can be almost any type of file including video, media or text. Gaining access to the DAT files ...