Comments on: How to read and open .DAT files in Windows

By: christina

christina — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:02:11 +0000

great help! thank u

By: seha

seha — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:00:36 +0000

Hi,
I have tried changing my CHAT MESSAGES archives to .doc, .txt, .pdf etc, but NOTHING MENTIONED here for CHAT MESSAGES ARCHIVES works!

Others have also pasted the same query, but only for this i have not been able to find a solution. This is really very important for me.

Please do help. Will be grateful.

By: Monika

Monika — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:29:34 +0000

hey i cannot open this .dat file. I have tried a lot to open it but i think its windows media player but it makes weird noises so please let me know if you can do anything. i have provided you my email so just contact me via that so that i can send you that attachment!! please help me asap! thnx

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 01:15:23 +0000

Excellent guide on this, for those people asking about autorun.dat files and modifying .dat files that come with software, these files are not meant to be viewed except by the software and editing these files can cause major problems with your program.

One of the best ways to think about those type of .dat files is to think about secret codes used by military etc.

By: Audrey Tromp

Audrey Tromp — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:32:33 +0000

This is an awesome site and the above explanation you gave is what I have been looking for for a very long time so because of this, I have a question that I pray you can help me with … Here we go!

I have just purchased Corel PSP Photo X3 and I absolutely hate it! It was installed on my computer, worked okay for only a week and then just bombed out. I click on the icon, it goes into the program for a split second and the disappears. Our computer guy has tried everything but nothing is working and I cannot read any of the graphic files that I need to make my cards from. We have uninstalled and reinstalled 11 times and nothing is working!!!!

Is there a solution or better still is there a program that I can downbload to enable me to read these PSP files and delete Corel completely.

If you can answer this question, I will be dumbstruck because nobody else is able to help me.

Thanks for a great site which I have added to my favorites and forwarded to my friends.

Hugs

Audrey

By: Jorma Smith

Jorma Smith — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:31:16 +0000

I have a .dat file from a game. The file is about 300 megabytes and, if I try to open it with Notepad or Word, the programs always crash, maybe because the file is so big. Is there any way I can open that file?

By: Kiran

Kiran — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:03:55 +0000

I am trying to edit a game file with the extension .DAT and I have searched everywhere on the internet but can’t find anything. I want to edit the .DAT file to customize the game to have more lives, more points, etc.

Can anyone help?

By: Sandi Parks

Sandi Parks — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:26:54 +0000

How to open a .dat file received as an email attachment: I save the file to my desktop and open it with Internet Explorer.

By: srinath

srinath — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:23:50 +0000

This is just to say thanks for the tip provided. I was able to open the .dat file.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:46:16 +0000

Many thanks for the advice. It was invaluable!!

By: Asparuh

Asparuh — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:34:13 +0000

It worked. I changed the file format .dat to .doc, and, as I was expecting, the document opened perfectly with Word.

Regards!

By: Liz?

Liz? — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:24:57 +0000

I downloaded a bunch of notes from Outlook and wanted to open them in Excel. Can that be done?

By: beti

beti — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:13:36 +0000

# Helpneedy said on : April 13th, 2010 at 12:47 am

“PLZ HELP ME!!!!!!!! I have found my chat history in the form of .DAT files. I’m talkin about SKYPE CHAT HISTORY here… can anyone tell me how to open them in a readable format? i tried everythin above and still it wont work. Note pad only shows encoded stuff…. PLZ HELP!!!!! ”

I have the same question. Can anybody help?!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:21:12 +0000

This is really helpful, but I can’t figure out what type of file it’s supposed to be. I have a CD I burned 5 years ago (when I was only 10) and it was supposedly supposed to be a bunch of stuff from Teen Titans (a TV show I loved). I’ve tried all the different extensions I would have used at the time (.gif, .jpg, .bmp, .doc, .wmv, etc.), but I still can’t figure it out. The odd thing is that when I first put my disc in, it says it’s a video disc, so I’m thinking it’s supposed to be some sort of video.

Any ideas? If so, please email them to me!

By: Rakesh

Rakesh — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:18:44 +0000

Hi.

I have one software module which accepts only .DAT files (Images taken from a specific camera). Now, I want to open another images with same module. I converted JPG and TIF files to .DAT, but it still shows “invalid file format.” Is there any generic reader for .DAT files?