Renaming File Extensions in XP Home & Pro

[Guest]

My e-mail network at work, does not allow certain attachments with specific
file extensions through (.zip and .mdb (Access) being the problem ones). I
can overcome this at work (XP Pro), by right-clicking, renaming the extension
to something such as .zzz and e-mailing the attachment. The recipient can
then reverse this and everything works fine.

From my home PC (XP Home), when I right-click and re-name or via properties,
the extension is not visible and hence I cannot rename. Therefore unable to
e-mail these extension to my work e-mail when at home. Even if I rename to
..zzz, the file is saved as .zzz.zip...

Is there an easy toggle to change this in XP or Office (running 2003 at both
PCs), or is this an issue with Home and Pro versions?

Happy to share more info if the above does not make sense...

 

[D.Currie]

My e-mail network at work, does not allow certain attachments with
specific
file extensions through (.zip and .mdb (Access) being the problem ones). I
can overcome this at work (XP Pro), by right-clicking, renaming the
extension
to something such as .zzz and e-mailing the attachment. The recipient can
then reverse this and everything works fine.

From my home PC (XP Home), when I right-click and re-name or via
properties,
the extension is not visible and hence I cannot rename. Therefore unable
to
e-mail these extension to my work e-mail when at home. Even if I rename to
.zzz, the file is saved as .zzz.zip...

Is there an easy toggle to change this in XP or Office (running 2003 at
both
PCs), or is this an issue with Home and Pro versions?

Happy to share more info if the above does not make sense...

From My Computer or any other explorer window, go to tools - folder
options - view and unclick "hide extensions for known file types. Once you
can see them, it's a lot easier to change them.