Re: Unusual file properties
Miguel wrote:
In the example that I gave, in the folder that I quoted, I do have
the file ntuser.dat which I took to be the appropriate system file.
Windows only looks at the extension to determine file type. It does
not actually look at the file itself.
Nero (and quite possibly other programs) associate .dat files as
video files because the video files on a VCD are named with the .dat
extension.
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-Mike
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