re: One more thing Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 8:17 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Adam Bradley (7830 messages posted) They likely hid them to keep casual users from renaming them by accident, which Vista fixes to a degree. When you go to rename something only the name is highlighted so you have to explicitly select the extension to change it. As far as the files here .flv is another possibility, sometimes download when you save a flash video file is saves without an extension so you have to manually add it. On Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 7:34 am, Ricer46 wrote: >You still should enable the viewing of file extensions as I described previously. >Seeing them is very helpful. M$ should never have hidden them. Hiding them can cause >more confusion. > > > Written in response to: One more thing (Ricer46: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 7:34 am) Responses to this message: re: One more thing (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 9:02 am) re: One more thing (Ricer46: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 9:42 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 6:56 am) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Steve: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 7:56 am) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 11:36 am) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Ricer46: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 12:14 pm) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 12:53 pm) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Ricer46: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 2:12 pm) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 2:16 pm) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Ricer46: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 3:03 pm) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Steve: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 4:29 pm) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 9:45 pm) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 12:08 am) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 1:42 am) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 3:29 am) I thought so... (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 7:23 am) One more thing (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 7:34 am) re: One more thing (Adam Bradley: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 8:17 am) re: One more thing (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 9:02 am) re: One more thing (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 9:42 am) re: I thought so... (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 8:56 am) lol (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 9:37 am) re: lol (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 10:57 am) re: lol (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 11:40 am) re: lol (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 3:05 pm) re: lol (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 5:51 pm) And... (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 6:04 pm) re: And... (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 11:31 pm) re: And... (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 5:30 am) re: And... (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 5:53 am) re: And... (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 9:05 am) re: And... (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 10:10 am) re: And... (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 10:41 am) re: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox are greyed out (Steve: Tue, Oct 6, 2009, 5:26 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum