"Mayayana"
news alt.windows7.general, wrote:

"Maurice" wrote

| No, only W7 had a problem. File system etc all exactly the same
| for all
| directories on the drive.
| Only if the files in a certain directory had filetype 'MTS' did
| W7
| ignore
| the whole directory, whereas if the same directory instead
| contained 'MOV'
| files it was happy as proverbial sand boy.

One thing you might check: Look in the Registry
under HKCR\.mts and see what's there. I have it
marked as a video file. I suspect VLC did that. It's
possible that .mts can also be something else that's
hidden by default. (If hiding "hidden" files is enabled.)

And a simple dir /a would still show the files, even if the hidden
attribute had been placed on them; and I don't see why that would
have been the case unless he monkeyed with registry key settings as
you outlined above. The user didn't indicate doing any such thing,
but, It's possible a software application he has installed did?

Either way, if that was the case, Windows was doing what it was told,
and, ticking view all files, or dir /a from console would still show
them in the directory, regardless of attribute settings or registry
key settings.

Why not just install VLC? I wouldn't put anything
past Microsoft when it comes to trying to push their
own media player.

I wouldn't accuse Microsoft of having Windows pretend not to see a
folders contents just to get you to use a specific player, either.
That's just not how an OS works.


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