Ken Springer wrote:

As a matter of fact, there's even proof of this culpability in the
default fileview options of "Hide known file type extensions"

I find it a bit funny, how Microsoft will not fix certain
things, in their development process. Some brain dead
features just seem to migrate from OS to OS.

Presumably they have a reason for doing that, but I cannot
fathom what that reason might be.

Say for example, I have

dog****.txt
dog****.exe

and I'm in a freshly installed OS. I see

dog**** --- funny indecipherable icon
dog**** --- slightly different funny indecipherable icon

and somehow I'm supposed to use my 20-20 vision
to tell that one is a text file, the other is an
EXE, and I shouldn't double-click the EXE by accident.

It makes it hard to quickly glance at a folder,
and "hit" the right one on demand.

They could still have their funny icons, plus have
the extensions exposed. But release after release,
it's still the same way by default.

Boggles the mind.

It would be really really interesting, to have their
GUI design guru, explain how this is a good thing. Shurely
the other staff have complained by now.

It's like the various "sort order" features
in File Explorer, the inability to have File Open
dialogs preserve a user's preferred representation
and so on. Designs preserved in scrupulous detail
since the dawn of time. Never any "accidental improvements".
They must have this really old employee, past retirement
age, who reviews each OS.. and makes sure File Explorer
is busted in exactly the same way :-)

Paul