Re: XP Reg Hack

From: Steve Ray (nochace_at_all.com)
Date: 10/14/05 

Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:52:23 GMT

Doug

Many thanks for this

Steve

"Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@mvps.org> wrote in message
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Value: HideFileExt
Type: DWord
Contents: 1 hides file extensions for known file types, 0 doesn't. 

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"Steve Ray" <nochace@all.com> wrote in message 
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> Guys
>
> Firstly multiple apologies if I've posted this into the wrong NG but after
> trawling thru the inordinate amount of MS NG's I decided to post to this 
> one
> as it looked sort of right....
>
> Anyhow
>
> I've rolled out MS W2K ADV server at work, some years ago, upgrades are in
> the pipeline and we deployed a policy to stop our STUDENTS from gaining
> access to the "Tools | Folder Options" in explorer.  I still need to keep
> this option.
>
> My web programming section need to gain access to 1 section of this
> component.  They need to take the tick out of the "Hide extensions for 
> known
> file types" so they can see the names of the components they are inserting
> into their WebPages.
>
> So..
>
> Is anyone aware of where this registry entry is for this please as it 
> would
> make my life so much better
>
> Thanks in anticipation
>
> Steve
>
> -- 
>
> If all you have is an axe, every problem looks like hours of fun.
>
>

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