Therefore, it's the provider that sets a limit as to how many e-mails you can receive before you run out of space. E-mail messages are typically quite small, except those with large attachments that take a day and a half to retrieve. Most ISPs allow ample storage space but if yours doesn't, you'll need to contact them and beg them for more, or possibly get rid of some stored on the server. New to the Internet, I downloaded some screen savers for my Windows 98 computer. I was afraid to select anything.
Most file names have a three letter extension to identify the type of file they are.
The next time you want to open these files, you have basically two choices. Perhaps the most common way is to first open the program, such as Word, and then pull down the File menu and choose Open to select the document. When you do this, Word is automatically launched and the document is opened for editing. For this to happen, though, the computer must be informed of what types of documents to associate with which applications. The computer doesn't magically know to launch Microsoft Word when the user double-clicks on a document, it must be told.