Re: Unhiding file extensions



Are you logged on as Administrator or a User? Could be that the
Administartor has set some kind of policy to hide the extensions. (Just
guessing here.)

"John Yip" <John Yip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9896D27A-050F-465E-894B-F95EA5CE44BF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It seems that my Windows XP has been acting very oddly over the past week.
It
insists on hiding on all my file extensions by default. I've already gone
into Tools/Folder Options to uncheck the option to Hide File Extensions
for
Known File Types. However, the options automatically checks itself again
after I've closed Windows Explorer.

Worse, this strange behaviour also happens the moment I've left the
current
folder that I've unhid all extensions, ie, the moment I leave and return
to
the folder, I find that all the file extensions have been hidden by
default
once more.

Has anyone experienced the same problem? I don't remember this to be an
issue -- is this caused by some stupid Update? The same problem is seen in
both my office and my home PC.


.



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