Windows Explorer, GPO, 'hide extensions with known file types'

[Blake]

Can this be done? It confuses our users that the file types are hidden.
Can I set a GPO to uncheck this box for all our domain users?

Blake

 

[Tim Springston \(MSFT\)]

There is no setting in the default templates to do this. The VB script
below will do this however, if you'd lke to distrbute this via script:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
strComputer = "."
Set objReg = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer &
"\root\default:StdRegProv")
strKeyPath = "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced"
objReg.CreateKey HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath
ValueName = "HideFileExt"
dwValue = 1
objReg.SetDWORDValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, ValueName, dwValue