Re: Calling Wesley Vogel

AWOL? Absent Without Leave?

Folder Options Empty or Missing Items

Go here...
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Read the instructions at the top.
368. Folder Options/View Empty - Restore Now

viewfolderrestore.reg is the file that you want.

You probably have an item missing from...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder

viewfolderrestore.reg should repair it.

You may have to reboot.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:uPWMgr4gHHA.5052@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
janet-m <janet-m@xxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Dear Wes
I agree with you about MS idea of hiding things. I would have added that
they should provide a garbage man to clean after all the left over from
files and programs that pile up every where in the computer like a dirty
room full of garbage.

The location of the line you mentioned was known to me as I used it in the
past. But I went there and this line was A.O.L...gone... I thought that
one of the automatic patches relocated it so I looked elsewhere but no
luck. I went back to my new 800 patches that helped me two days ago and
downloaded three patches whose description seemed the closest one to my
problems and indeed that A.O.L. line showed up again.

I'll keep having fun as you said, Windows will never disappoint any of us.

Janet













"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ufnfVJ4gHHA.4904@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Show file extensions was my guess also.

For the life of me, I do not know what Microsoft was thinking when they
set
the default in Windows XP to HIDE file extensions.

As if this explains it: "Hides the last part of a file name, reducing
clutter in folder windows." Clutter, sheesh!

To show file extensions...
Start | Settings | Control Panel | Folder Options | View tab
UNCheck: Hide extensions for known file types |
Click Apply | Click OK

Or in any folder click Tools then click Folder Options.

This will also open Folder Options...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK

<quote>
For a variety of reasons you should make certain that your computer
always shows file extensions. Under Windows you can set the system to
hide extensions. This is dangerous as some malicious programs will send
executable files with a double extension in order to try to fool you into
thinking the file is not malicious. For example, if you receive the file
BADPROGRAM.TXT.VBS and have extensions turned off you would only see
BADPROGRAM.TXT and think that the file is a simple text file. If you
clicked
on it you would execute a script that could do anything.
<quote>
from...
General Information about File Extensions
http://filext.com/info/showthread.php?t=35

file name extension
[[File name extensions follow the period in a file name and indicate the
type of information stored in a file. For example, in the file name
Example.txt, the file name extension is .txt, which indicates that the
file
is a text file.]]

file type
[[In the Windows environment, a designation of the operational or
structural
characteristics of a file. The file type identifies the program, such as
Microsoft Word, that is used to open the file. File types are associated
with a file name extension. For example, files that have the .txt or .log
extension are of the Text Document type and can be opened using any text
editor. ]]

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:OaqX7pugHHA.4520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
janet-m <janet-m@xxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Hi Wes
I like to see the drivers of each file on my machine, such as .DOC
.TXT
.JPG etc etc. And this is how I set it.
I also know where to go to reset it this way in case Window went berserk
and changed many things on the machine.

I have now lost all the drives displayed on each file so I have a WORD
file without the .DOC or pictures without the .JPG ending and so on.

I used to know where to go fix it but I can't find it now, Can you tell
me
where to go and reset it?

Thanks
Janet

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