Need registry setting to show file extensions

[Tim Meddick]

Bill,
What did you think of the two images I posted in the other thread?

Is (the top image) anything like what you wanted?

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Bill in Co.]

Bill,
What did you think of the two images I posted in the other thread?

Is (the top image) anything like what you wanted?

Not quite. I want something more akin to the bottom image which has a LOT
of items on the task bar (YES!) but without the scroll thing. (Your top
image has only 8 items on the task bar). Plus I want no grouping. So I
can have perhaps 20 items down there on the taskbar without grouping, and no
scroller bar.

 

[Tim Meddick]

Well that's not possible - I had a total of 75 separate windows open in the top
image - with no scroll - BECAUSE OF GROUPING

If you don't employ grouping - then either way the taskbar will ALWAYS (with NO
exception) produce those up /down arrows after each item is reduced to a certain size
(it depends how much room you have on how many of the minimum sized items you an fit
on the taskbar before this happens) but it will always happen.

Again, having GROUPING employed sort of 'delays' the appearance of the scroll arrows
to such an extent that I have not seen them in two years. I had 75 items on the bar
in my example image - only possible with 'Grouping'.

And again - it is NOT possible to stop the scroll arrows from appearing ...

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Bill in Co.]

Well that's not possible - I had a total of 75 separate windows open in
the
top image - with no scroll - BECAUSE OF GROUPING

If you don't employ grouping - then either way the taskbar will ALWAYS
(with
NO exception) produce those up /down arrows after each item is reduced to
a
certain size (it depends how much room you have on how many of the minimum
sized items you an fit on the taskbar before this happens) but it will
always
happen.
Again, having GROUPING employed sort of 'delays' the appearance of the
scroll
arrows to such an extent that I have not seen them in two years. I had 75
items on the bar in my example image - only possible with 'Grouping'.

And again - it is NOT possible to stop the scroll arrows from appearing
...

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

Well, with Win98 you could get a whole bunch of items on the taskbar before
the scroll thing appeared (without grouping) (actually to the point that the
labels disappeared completely) That doesn't seem to be the case anymore,
meaning, once the items get below a certain width (and wider than in Win98,
probably wide enough to at least hold one letter), the scroll thing appears
(if you're not using any grouping)

But thanks, I suppose I could consider grouping, but I think I'll leave it
as it is. I really don't want ANY grouping. Thanks, Tim

 

[VanguardLH]

The link is an excellent tutorial on how to manually
configure hidden files over several of the Windows
OS'es. Thank you.

It does not give registry information, which was the
object of my question.

For future info, when trying to find out what registry changes are made
when you make configuration changes (or even when doing software
installs), you might want to consider a program that records what
changes were made on your host. Zsoft's Uninstaller is more geared to
helping you more cleanly uninstall a program (first use the Add/Remove
Programs applet, if an entry for the program is there, and then use
Zsoft to do further cleanup). InstallWatch lets you see what changes
happened on your system and is more useful for monitoring those changes
than as an uninstaller helper. You take a snapshot of your host before
you make the change, make the change, and then analyze the current state
against the snapshot to list the changes. This is how I often find what
registry or files got added, deleted, or changed based on an action that
I perform. I'm sure there are similar state-change reporting utilities
that let you see what changed on your host between "before" and "after"
snapshots.

 

[Tim Meddick]

"RegShot" is a small (73Kb) program that does just that - takes two 'snapshots' of
the registry - one before you make a settings change in Windows - and the second
afterwards.

Then you press on the 'Compare' button and all changed reg values are displayed in a
'results' text file.

RegShot Webpage :
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Registry-Tweak/Reg-Shot.shtml

Download link :
http://download.softpedia.com/dl/a7...1337/software/tweak/regshot_1.8.2_src_bin.zip
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[ToddAndMargo]

"RegShot" is a small (73Kb) program that does just that - takes two 'snapshots' of
the registry - one before you make a settings change in Windows - and the second
afterwards.

Then you press on the 'Compare' button and all changed reg values are displayed in a
'results' text file.

RegShot Webpage :
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Registry-Tweak/Reg-Shot.shtml

Download link :
http://download.softpedia.com/dl/a7...1337/software/tweak/regshot_1.8.2_src_bin.zip
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

Hi Tim and Vanguard,

Great link! I just downloaded RegShot.

Thank you!
-T

 

[Tim Meddick]

Just to clarify, the only advice you should be following in these groups is
mine. I am the smartest, everyone else is dumb. Follow my advice and you
shall be rewarded.

 

[ToddAndMargo]

Just to clarify, the only advice you should be following in these groups is
mine. I am the smartest, everyone else is dumb. Follow my advice and you
shall be rewarded.

This is well known. No need to reiterated it.
-T

 

[Tim Meddick]

Todd,
Just wondered if you knew that wasn't actually my posting you just replied
to? - It was someone else using my name!
They have been doing this for the past 36 hrs...

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[ToddAndMargo]

Todd,
Just wondered if you knew that wasn't actually my posting you just replied
to? - It was someone else using my name!
They have been doing this for the past 36 hrs...

I thought it was you being humorous. I laughed at the absurdity
and added some silliness my self. Sort of back fired on the imposer,
didn't it!

-T

 

[Tim Meddick]

He usually posts as "The Real Truth" and if you continue using this groups for any
length of time, you will hear a lot about him.

I generally do not like to get involved, however, if he posts his "advice" in a
thread that I'm involved with - I feel obligated to warn people of what he does (i.e.
uses other programmer's code as his own - some of it unusable).

I happened to do this two days ago and he's been targeting me since then - I suppose
I should feel honoured as I'm in quite revered company with others he chooses to call
his enemies...

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Tim Meddick]

Are you threatening me? Threats are illegal and I will have you prosecuted.