Windows 10 How do I extract files? (I dont mean .zip .rar .7z .exe .js .other file names)

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Like how do I open files that dont have . in them and it says the type is file... anyway to open it? i wanna open it for mp3 files... and its inside the pingu folder that is extracted from the pingu.exe application made by hit entertainment in 2003. I just wanna know how to open them please here is the picture for you to see so you can understand
 

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File extensions are nothing more than an indicator to explorer on which program to use to open/run the given file type. Looking at a file with a hex edit and looking at the first few bytes (called the magic number) will identify the type of file. For example files that start MZ are executables. On a side note if you try to extract the content from an executable it will typically extract the sections of the PE (packed executable) such as .text .rdata. pdata etc. These sections are not usually readable by given programs since they're just parts of an executable.
File extensions are nothing more than an indicator to explorer on which program to use to open/run the given file type. Looking at a file with a hex edit and looking at the first few bytes (called the magic number) will identify the type of file. For example files that start MZ are executables. On a side note if you try to extract the content from an executable it will typically extract the sections of the PE (packed executable) such as .text .rdata. pdata etc. These sections are not usually readable by given programs since they're just parts of an executable.
 

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