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SHOWING FILE EXTENSIONS IN EXPLORER
The default for Windows Explorer is to not show the file
extensions in the "file list" view (which is
similar to Windows 3.x File Manager.) If you would care
to change this, here is how you do it: start up an
Explorer screen by: click on the Start icon on the
taskbar; move the mouse pointer to the option Programs in
the menu that "cascades" up; now, in the second
menu that cascades down, select (by clicking once) the
Windows Explorer option. Now at the top of this Explorer
window you will see a menu bar which includes
"View" as one of its options; click there. Move
the mouse pointer on that menu and click
"Options...". (In Windows 98 and ME, it's been
changed to the "Tools" menu and the
"Folder Options" item.) This brings up a dialog
box that shows two "tabbed file cards" (like in
a rolodex file) one behind the other, where one is
labelled "View" and the other "File
Types". On the View tab, you will see a check box
for "Hide MS-DOS file extensions for file types that
are registered". This should be checked; just move
your mouse to that box and click once in order to uncheck
it. Now all your MS-DOS file extensions will be shown.
