File Extension REG

File type: Registry File

About the REG file type:

If Windows cannot find the appropriate program associated with .REG files, then your registry may have errors. Check your Windows registry for errors (includes file association errors).

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Detailed information for file extension REG

Category: System Files
File format: Propriety
Open with Windows: Edit with Regedit, Runs itself when the corresponding application is run
Open with Linux: N/A
Inherently, these types of files pose no serious threat to the system and its users. However, since the REF files are program executable files, there is a possibility that other applications and files in the system will be infected when the files are infected with a certain threat. It is therefore important that only program executable files from trusted sources should be executed in the computer.