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Renaming File Extension
Hi,
I used to change file extensions on .exe. files so when sending via email, the recipient's email client would accept the file. I don't see a way to change the file extension in Windows8 Home. How do I do this? TIA |
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Hi, Boris.
Do you mean that Win8 Home does not have a Rename command? Or did you accept the default setting to "Hide extensions for known file types"? (In my opinion, that is one of the worst default settings that Microsoft has adopted, but it has persisted through the past several Windows generations.) There are several ways to get to Folder Options in Win8 Pro; I'm not sure about Home, but this SHOULD work, I think: Press the Windows key and type "folder options". When it tells you that "No apps match your search", look at the menu on the right side and click "Settings", then select Folder options from that menu. Since you've used Windows before, this screen should look familiar; choose the "View" tab. On the long list under "Advanced settings", near the bottom of the first page (about the 10th item) is "Hide extensions for known file types". By default, this box is checked. Clear this box and OK your way back to Start. Then you should see all the extensions. Then you can use Rename to change all or part of a filename, including the extension. Another pathway to the Folder Options screen is from Windows Explorer (the directory listing, not Internet Explorer). From WE's Home Ribbon, click the far-right icon, for Options, and then Change folder and search options. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010) Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3508.0205) in Win8 Pro "Boris" wrote in message . 116... Hi, I used to change file extensions on .exe. files so when sending via email, the recipient's email client would accept the file. I don't see a way to change the file extension in Windows8 Home. How do I do this? TIA |
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Boris wrote:
Hi, I used to change file extensions on .exe. files so when sending via email, the recipient's email client would accept the file. I don't see a way to change the file extension in Windows8 Home. How do I do this? TIA Can you send the zipped file? |
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"Boris" wrote in message
. 116 Hi, I used to change file extensions on .exe. files so when sending via email, the recipient's email client would accept the file. I don't see a way to change the file extension in Windows8 Home. How do I do this? Right click the file and select "rename". - OR - Select the file and press F2 -- dadiOH ____________________________ Winters getting colder? Tired of the rat race? Taxes out of hand? Maybe just ready for a change? Check it out... http://www.floridaloghouse.net |
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On Fri, 2 Aug 2013 14:52:29 +0000 (UTC), Boris wrote:
Hi, I used to change file extensions on .exe. files so when sending via email, the recipient's email client would accept the file. I don't see a way to change the file extension in Windows8 Home. How do I do this? TIA In addition to the other replies - my favorite way to rename a file is to simply left-click on its name in the file pane of Windows Explorer. The name can now be changed. As with the other methods, you may need to change the highlighting to select what you want to change. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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"R. C. White" wrote in
ecom: Hi, Yes, Win8 (I just read that there is no 'Windows 8 Home') does have the rename command, but I haven't been able to find how to show the extensions. I agree that having extensions hidden (Win8 hides them all) by default is nuts. I'm pretty much fluent in Win7 and below, but not Win8, and I always show all extensions, and show system files, too. This is my wife's machine that I've been playing with, to determine if when I get another laptop/desktop I want Win8. At this point, not so much. Thanks for the reply. I'm going to try your suggestions. Hi, Boris. Do you mean that Win8 Home does not have a Rename command? Or did you accept the default setting to "Hide extensions for known file types"? (In my opinion, that is one of the worst default settings that Microsoft has adopted, but it has persisted through the past several Windows generations.) There are several ways to get to Folder Options in Win8 Pro; I'm not sure about Home, but this SHOULD work, I think: Press the Windows key and type "folder options". When it tells you that "No apps match your search", look at the menu on the right side and click "Settings", then select Folder options from that menu. Since you've used Windows before, this screen should look familiar; choose the "View" tab. On the long list under "Advanced settings", near the bottom of the first page (about the 10th item) is "Hide extensions for known file types". By default, this box is checked. Clear this box and OK your way back to Start. Then you should see all the extensions. Then you can use Rename to change all or part of a filename, including the extension. Another pathway to the Folder Options screen is from Windows Explorer (the directory listing, not Internet Explorer). From WE's Home Ribbon, click the far-right icon, for Options, and then Change folder and search options. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010) Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3508.0205) in Win8 Pro "Boris" wrote in message . 116... Hi, I used to change file extensions on .exe. files so when sending via email, the recipient's email client would accept the file. I don't see a way to change the file extension in Windows8 Home. How do I do this? TIA |
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Paul in Houston TX wrote in
: Boris wrote: Hi, I used to change file extensions on .exe. files so when sending via email, the recipient's email client would accept the file. I don't see a way to change the file extension in Windows8 Home. How do I do this? TIA Can you send the zipped file? I probably could, but sometimes the receiver doesn't know how to handle. But, I'll try that, too. |
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On Fri, 2 Aug 2013 10:49:08 -0500, "R. C. White"
wrote: Hi, Boris. Do you mean that Win8 Home does not have a Rename command? Or did you accept the default setting to "Hide extensions for known file types"? (In my opinion, that is one of the worst default settings that Microsoft has adopted, but it has persisted through the past several Windows generations.) A very strong *DITTO*. -- Ken Blake |
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On Fri, 2 Aug 2013 22:13:52 +0000 (UTC), Boris
wrote: "R. C. White" wrote in ecom: Hi, Yes, Win8 (I just read that there is no 'Windows 8 Home') does have the rename command, but I haven't been able to find how to show the extensions. I agree that having extensions hidden (Win8 hides them all) by default is nuts. I'm pretty much fluent in Win7 and below, but not Win8, and I always show all extensions, and show system files, too. This is my wife's machine that I've been playing with, to determine if when I get another laptop/desktop I want Win8. At this point, not so much. You change it to show extensions the same way in Windows 8 as you did in Windows 7. And by the way, regarding your upcoming decision on whether you want Windows 8, let me point out something that you perhaps don't realize: Windows 8 has two interfaces; the Modern/Metro Interface (which may be all you've looked at) and the traditional Desktop Interface. That traditional Desktop Interface is almost identical to Windows 7's interface; the biggest difference is that there is no Start Orb to click to bring up the Start menu. But note that you can get the Start Orb back by using one of several third-party programs, either free or very inexpensive (Classic Shell at http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ and Start8 at http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/; my personal preference is Start8, but they are both very good). And going from one interface to the other is very easy; there are several ways, but simply pressing the Windows key is perhaps the easiest. Simply installing one of those two and using the traditional desktop interface may be a better choice for you than going to Windows 7. I use Windows 8, almost exclusively with the traditional desktop interface, and with Start 8 installed. If you were to look at and use my computer, you would have a hard time realizing that it's not Windows 7. -- Ken Blake |
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"Bob Henson" wrote in message
Ken Blake wrote: I use Windows 8, almost exclusively with the traditional desktop interface, and with Start 8 installed. If you were to look at and use my computer, you would have a hard time realizing that it's not Windows 7. Have you found a way to hide/delete all the Metro apps in the start menu? With Classic Shell, you can just skip over the entire screen. _________________ Assuming Start 8 is the same as Classic Shell in that regard, you can't delete the menu entries. I have not spent a lot of time on it, admittedly, but the simple expedient of Right Click and then Delete doesn't work certainly. Right click gets/should get you a pop up bar at the bottom of the screen. Depending on what you clicked, that bar has various options, "Unpin" from Start being one, "Uninstall" generally being another. -- dadiOH ____________________________ Winters getting colder? Tired of the rat race? Taxes out of hand? Maybe just ready for a change? Check it out... http://www.floridaloghouse.net |
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On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 09:46:06 +0100, Bob Henson
wrote: Ken Blake wrote: I use Windows 8, almost exclusively with the traditional desktop interface, and with Start 8 installed. If you were to look at and use my computer, you would have a hard time realizing that it's not Windows 7. Have you found a way to hide/delete all the Metro apps in the start menu? Assuming Start 8 is the same as Classic Shell in that regard, you can't delete the menu entries. I have not spent a lot of time on it, admittedly, but the simple expedient of Right Click and then Delete doesn't work certainly. I never even realized any were there! But your message prompted me to look for them. I didn't see any, so I went to All Programs, and found a folder called "Modern UI Applications." Yes, they are there, but that doesn't bother me at all. It's so unobtrusive that I didn't even realize it was there. Can I right-click on that folder on choose Delete? I don't know, and frankly I don't want to try. I don't mind its being there. -- Ken Blake |
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On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:34:32 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:
I use Windows 8, almost exclusively with the traditional desktop interface, and with Start 8 installed. If you were to look at and use my computer, you would have a hard time realizing that it's not Windows 7. Who are these people who would have a hard time realizing that Win 8 with one of the popular add-ons is not Win 7. ;-) I'm just poking fun. I realize there are people who are mostly oblivious to what's in front of them. |
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On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 08:13:15 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:
Can I right-click on that folder on choose Delete? I don't know, and frankly I don't want to try. I don't mind its being there. It's generally safe to right-click and display a context menu. You don't have to take the next step and select any of those menu entries. |
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On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 10:16:33 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote: On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:34:32 -0700, Ken Blake wrote: I use Windows 8, almost exclusively with the traditional desktop interface, and with Start 8 installed. If you were to look at and use my computer, you would have a hard time realizing that it's not Windows 7. Who are these people who would have a hard time realizing that Win 8 with one of the popular add-ons is not Win 7. ;-) I'm just poking fun. I realize there are people who are mostly oblivious to what's in front of them. OK, if you're just poking fun, I'll take it in the spirit in which you meant it. But let me elaborate. Certainly, it's not Windows 7. But it can be made to look very much like it, and to a casual observer, it appears to be Windows 7 (I've had more than one person look over my shoulder and think that I was running Windows 7). Spend some time with it, look around some more, and unless you are one of those who are mostly oblivious to what's in front of them, you'll see enough differences to realize what it is. My points are two: 1. It can be made to look very much like Windows 7. 2. It can be made to work very much like Windows 7. To most (but not all) of the people who have tried Windows 8 and immediately hated it, those two things can readily reverse their opinion. I'm not one of those who immediately hated it when I first tried it, but I was certainly far from being one who was enamored of it. Running Start8 when I found it changed my mind almost instantly. It's now enough like Windows 7 that I like it just fine, and the few differences are small enough that they don't bother me. The more time that passes, the less often I even glance at the metro interface. If I had a touch-screen tablet, it might be different, but the desktop interface with Start8 works very well for me. -- Ken Blake |
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On Sun, 4 Aug 2013 18:35:33 +0100, Bob Henson
wrote: Ken Blake wrote: On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 10:16:33 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:34:32 -0700, Ken Blake wrote: I use Windows 8, almost exclusively with the traditional desktop interface, and with Start 8 installed. If you were to look at and use my computer, you would have a hard time realizing that it's not Windows 7. Who are these people who would have a hard time realizing that Win 8 with one of the popular add-ons is not Win 7. ;-) I'm just poking fun. I realize there are people who are mostly oblivious to what's in front of them. OK, if you're just poking fun, I'll take it in the spirit in which you meant it. But let me elaborate. Certainly, it's not Windows 7. But it can be made to look very much like it, and to a casual observer, it appears to be Windows 7 (I've had more than one person look over my shoulder and think that I was running Windows 7). Spend some time with it, look around some more, and unless you are one of those who are mostly oblivious to what's in front of them, you'll see enough differences to realize what it is. My points are two: 1. It can be made to look very much like Windows 7. 2. It can be made to work very much like Windows 7. To most (but not all) of the people who have tried Windows 8 and immediately hated it, those two things can readily reverse their opinion. I'm not one of those who immediately hated it when I first tried it, but I was certainly far from being one who was enamored of it. Running Start8 when I found it changed my mind almost instantly. It's now enough like Windows 7 that I like it just fine, and the few differences are small enough that they don't bother me. The more time that passes, the less often I even glance at the metro interface. If I had a touch-screen tablet, it might be different, but the desktop interface with Start8 works very well for me. You're absolutely correct - but the old folk I help don't know how to make it functional, so until I show them they can't find there way round it at all. I don't know how many people have been put off computers by Windows 8, but you can bet it's already a lot. Yes, I agree. -- Ken Blake |
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