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TravisHuckins
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I am always kinda annoyed with a new modern Windows system not showing the extensions by default. I record music and so I have a bunch of files with different file extensions. With them off it can be hard to tell an MP3 apart from a wave in explorer.
ScanDisk
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yeah, I do like the fact that it was still acting like an operating system for a computer, and not like a hand-holding tool for people who know nothing about computers.
fatwizard
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All of the "hand holding" in today's systems annoys me. If I wanted a Mac or a tablet, I would have bought one. That looks to be the way of the future though. Soon, we won't even be driving our own cars .
It takes less than a minute to show file extensions in explorer in any version of windows, what's the problem? Not showing extensions by default makes perfect sense to me, it saves support folks from having to explain "what is a file extension" instead of working on the user's current problem.
That may be true, but it also seems to be dumbing things down.
...where the user's current problem is the computer being in control of a trojan because the user could not see that a file named README with a Notepad icon was actually an executable file.
