Re: sort by file extension

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To my knowledge, sorting has always been by Type, rather than
Extension.
If you have a reasonable knowledge of Regedit, you can change it.
Let me know your level of expertise.

FWIW, I would export 3 keys and alter "txtfile" to "logfile" and "Text
Document" to "Log File" in the .reg file and import them again.

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.LOG]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.LOG]

If you don't follow the above, please don't try it.

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:18:02 -0800, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics, Patricia Shannon
<PatriciaShannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am using Windows XP Professional at work.
I want to be able to sort by file extension.
In Windows Explorer, I have .log files that show the "Type" to be "Text
Document".
So when I sort by "Type", it sorts the .log and .txt files together.

In the Folders option of Control Panel, I deleted the LOG type (I couldn't
find a way to change the file type), then added it back, w/o choosing a file
type.
So, the file type is shown as "LOG File", which is what I want.
It is set to open with Notepad.
However, in Windows Explorer, it still shows the "type" for these files to
be "Text Document", and sorts them in with .txt files.
I even did a restart of my computer.

I'm sure that sorting by "Type" used to sort by file extension.
.

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