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Old November 26th 17, 12:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default hiding extensions by default

In message , Paul
writes:
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Microsoft really shouldn't hide the extensions
by default.

Paul


And we've been saying this since at least '9x.

Has there been any indication of them changing this default - maybe in
Windows 10.xxx? (I know they've said 10 is the "last" Windows; in
practice, therefore, future versions will be 10.9.9.9....)

The original _reason_ for hiding extensions (even having the _option_ to
do so) - presumably to avoid confusing the poor dumb users - was mostly
superseded when malware started to use double extensions, and isn't
really valid since they introduced the change in (I think) 7 whereby
"rename" defaults to no longer highlighting the extension.
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