Showing FIle Extension

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Hi,

I was wondering how I can get my Windows XP Professional to display file extensions. On the desktop, in folders, and when saving files.

Does anyone know how to do this?

I know that this works in Win 2000, but what about in XP?

Thanks!
 
Hi,

I was wondering how I can get my Windows XP Professional to display file extensions. On the desktop, in folders, and when saving files.

Does anyone know how to do this?

I know that this works in Win 2000, but what about in XP?

Thanks!
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The CERT site has posted instructions for this. It's a scary operation,
though. I'm running XP Pro, and this procedure works. If you're scared
to poke around in the Registry, get a computer-geek friend to do it for
you:


CERT Incident Note IN-2000-07:
"Exploitation of Hidden File Extensions"
(http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2000-07.html)


The most important part is at the very end:


Remove ALL occurrences of the value "NeverShowExt" from your registry!


. Open the Windows Start menu

. Select "Run" and enter "regedit" to open the registry editor

. From the "Edit" menu, select "Find"

. Uncheck the "Keys" and "Data" entries under "Look at", and
insure the "Values" entry is checked

. Enter "NeverShowExt" in the "Find What" box and click
"Find Next"

. When a value is found, right click on the value name and
select "Delete"

. Press F3 to find the next occurrence of "NeverShowExt".

. Repeat the previous two steps until all occurrences
of "NeverShowExt" have been deleted from the registry

. The computer will need to be rebooted for changes to take effect
 
Hi,

Go to Windows Explorer/Tools/Folder Options/View and uncheck Hide extensions
for known file types.
 
This procedure isn't necessary at all. Now, for those who want to restrict
and exclude I have the edit created and also for those who want to show
super hidden file extensions. But then again, this isn't really necessary
for the common user nor per his question, IMO.
 
This procedure isn't necessary at all. Now, for those who want to restrict
and exclude I have the edit created and also for those who want to show
super hidden file extensions. But then again, this isn't really necessary
for the common user nor per his question, IMO.
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You're probably right - when he mentioned his desktop, though, I thought
about the shortcut icons that you find there. I like having everything
out in the open, and don't mind seeing the shortcuts with a ".lnk"
suffix. It isn't as neat and tidy, but it's worth it to me. When
somebody sends me an attachment, I know that the suffix I see is the
real mccoy. I first saw that registry fix back when folks were getting
email attachments that said ".jpg" or ".gif", when they were really
".jpg.HiddenExtension", and the HiddenExtension was an executable.

Well, OP, now you have the easy answer that reveals 95% of the suffixes,
and the complicated answer that brings them ALL out of hiding. I'd do
Kelly's fix first and see if that is what you had in mind. If so, no
need to go mucking around in the Registry.

~ Rosanne
 
Not saying your way is wrong at all. Based on the level/tone of the
question, it didn't seem like the first place to send the OP. :o)
 
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