[GRLUG] save hidden files in windows

[Mike Williams]

On 07/15/2011 02:53 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> Ah. Windows Explorer often tries too hard to protect users from
> themselves. There's settings somewhere to fix some of that, but I
> don't remember off-hand where they are. The version of Windows in use
> may be a factor, too. I don't know.
That would be the dreaded "hide extensions for registered file types" or 
some such. It's one of the 20 or so changes you can make in 
Folder-options and one of about four that I always change immediately 
after installing Windows.

It's not quite as bad as it used to be, though. Modern Windows (7 and 
Vista at least) fairly often look at the first few bytes of the file 
itself to identify it rather than blindly trusting the extension. 
Various trojans used to mess with Explorer by convincing naive users to 
open what they thought was "harmless.txt" when it was actually 
"harmless.txt.exe".

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