MS-DOS long file names

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Guest

We use a communications program (Procomm Plus) that works in MS-DOS. All the
PCs in the shop are running Windows 98 SE except one which is Windows XP.
After putting the XP PC in service we find that the Procomm will not
recognize our long file names (I.E. 100400100P.pme). On the Windows 98 PCs
it would automaticaly shorten the name with a ~ somewhere in the name (I.E.
1004~9.pme or something like that). With the XP PC it says the file is not
found. Is there a way to revert back to the old way with out going back to
98 SE?
 
G

glee

Open the Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and navigate to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

Set the value named "NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation" to 0
Restart if you needed to make a change.

Does this help?
 

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