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  Sunday, December 13, 2009 – Permalink –

Files do have Extensions

Smarten your machine


For some reason, the powers that be thought that the general public was going to be confused by those suffixes at the end of file names.

To help us all out, they hid extensions by default.

I like to see .Doc (or .Docx). Here's how to get that information back
  1. Open Windows Explorer

  2. Go to Tools>Folder Options.

  3. In the Folder Options dialog box, click the View tab

  4. Clear the checkbox to the left of the Hide extensions for known file types option

  5. Click OK to close the dialog box and return to Windows Explorer


Also see EdBott.com:
Show or hide file name extensions


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<Doug Klippert@ 3:29 AM

Comments:
Great advice! Seeing the extension is paramount to preventing infections. Lots of unknowing users clicking files that appear harmless, but aren't. Why, because they can't see the extension.
# posted by Anonymous Dave H : 2:18 AM
 
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