Comments on: Don’t Highlight Extensions When Renaming Files

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:48:19 +0000

haha Microsoft didn’t think this one up, different Linux distros have been doing it for a long time. Good, ole’ Microsoft playing catch-up……again

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:30:26 +0000

I always show extensions. I also prefer the rename to highlight the extensions as well. It’s a time waster for me to have to type it out or re-highlight the file name and extension for cutting and pasting into my HTML code. I’m currently looking for a way to toggle this behavior.

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:21:53 +0000

I wish Konquror(Linux File manager) had this feature. It seems really useful.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:09:39 +0000

alekdavis wrote:

Always show extensions. I wish this were a default Windows setting and I did not have to set it every time I rebuild (or get a new) system.

I wish it was default as well, but that is coming from a power user's perspective. Think about how confused regular users would be if they saw extensions!

By: alekdavis

alekdavis — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:50:03 +0000

Always show extensions. I wish this were a default Windows setting and I did not have to set it every time I rebuild (or get a new) system.

By: Lashiec

Lashiec — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:53:09 +0000

Well, I have enabled the display of extensions for security reasons, and also to ensure that when I rename a file the whole name is highlighted (since I usually include dots in the name).

Since I use xplorer² which does not select the extensions by default, I don’t need any workaround in XP to simulate the Vista behavior.

By: FearZip

FearZip — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:53:39 +0000

Also another utility for doing this is qttabbbar. It is useful if you like the other features of the application (tabs, previsualization of files…)

By: conchur

conchur — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:17:15 +0000

One of the first things I do with a clean windows install is to enable view extensions, hidden files, system folders and detail view as defaults. Then I install Pitaschio! I don’t know of any way to alter extensions through explorer when they’re hidden, and I have found that I want to do that surprisingly often.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:30:06 +0000

Extensions are good to distinguish a worm fom the rest.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:51:21 +0000

I too always show the extensions. Like others have said, Windows doesn’t always pick the right program to open something with (I especially find this to be true of video files) so I’d rather see the extension so I can pick for myself.