simple Windows question...

[vtohthree]

All my icons have to have an extension on them in order to open.
For example if I saved an MS word document as "hello" it must have the acronyms, ".doc" on it in order to open, this is rather annoying since I often rename icons(after I save it as new default)

What happened? Not sure if some program I installed did this by default or what, but I don't remember changing anything. What settings do I have to change to reverse this?

Thanks

 

[MrChad]

In Explorer, go to Tools / Folder Options. Under the View tab, check "Hide extensions for known file types."

 

[vtohthree]

Originally posted by: MrChad
In Explorer, go to Tools / Folder Options. Under the View tab, check "Hide extensions for known file types."

Thanks a lot my friend! Certainly did the trick...maybe this happened after I installed the beta version of IE, I don't know... reguardless, this makes things much better, cheers! and thanks again!

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: vtohthree

Originally posted by: MrChad
In Explorer, go to Tools / Folder Options. Under the View tab, check "Hide extensions for known file types."

Thanks a lot my friend! Certainly did the trick...maybe this happened after I installed the beta version of IE, I don't know... reguardless, this makes things much better, cheers! and thanks again!

Yeah, but that will hide them for all folders. I think you may just want to do this for the Desktop folder (it's in your document folder tree).

 

[bendixG15]

Originally posted by: Markbnj

Originally posted by: vtohthree

Originally posted by: MrChad
In Explorer, go to Tools / Folder Options. Under the View tab, check "Hide extensions for known file types."

Thanks a lot my friend! Certainly did the trick...maybe this happened after I installed the beta version of IE, I don't know... reguardless, this makes things much better, cheers! and thanks again!

Yeah, but that will hide them for all folders. I think you may just want to do this for the Desktop folder (it's in your document folder tree).

:thumbsup:
If you work with Windows Explorer, not having the file extensions will drive you nuts.