data.pif from intel@shrapnelgames.com????

[Fyron]

Yeah, whatever. Please explain how I in any way glorified Microsoft?

[Mephisto]

Easy, guys. We all know how Microsoft can get all parties all worked up.

[Karibu]

Originally posted by Krsqk:
Actually, I think it's because of yet another "helpful" idea from Microsoft. WinXP (and maybe Win2000 as well) ships with a default setting of "Hide extensions for known file types." [/QB]

Unfortunately it is in W2K also I understand that you can choose to use it, but why make it default? Like using big objects, web -scene (the space consuming, irrelevant, needless infopanel in the Windows explorer if you don't take it off) and all those things which efficiently prevent you from finding and seeing anything. Well, this was my flame against M$ and I don't do it again. What's the use of it anyway? Sorry guys

[ February 02, 2004, 06:37: Message edited by: Karibu ]

[Gryphin]

Microsoft does a lot of seemingly unusual things from an advanced useres perspective. Having done 3 years of direct support for Micro$ponge and an addtional 10 years of desktop support for a wide variety of Users I have found that there is usualy a logical reason for their desisions.
Hiding file extentions makes sence when you have seen as many files with the wrong extentions as I have.

[rdouglass]

Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
...Oh, and I keep my address book empty. I use the 'keep one e-mail from every sender in my in-box' technique of holding the addresses. This way I am not responsible for helping to spread viruses.

Unfortunately, this will not keep viruses away from those addresses. Most virii are intelligent enough to scan those locations as well as address books. Any file it can read will do....

[DavidG]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Yeah, whatever. Please explain how I in any way glorified Microsoft?

Please esplain how I 'bashed' MS. For a guy that is constantly compaining about people claiming you said something you didn't you sure like to do it to others.

[Fyron]

That part was directed at Krsqk...

[ February 02, 2004, 22:39: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Krsqk]

I hardly consider the concept of "If you don't know what it does, don't mess with it" an advanced user concept. Maybe I'm way off on my idea of the average computer user, though--perhaps the "I already know it all, and I can fake my way out of it if I find out I don't know it all" attitude so prevalent in other areas takes root here, too. A little education might be in order here, so people aren't afraid of harmless actions and are afraid of dangerous ones.

[Fyron]

The average computer user these days doesn't have the first clue about what a computer is. This is why Dell advertisments are so successful and Dell has grown so big.

[ February 02, 2004, 23:22: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[DavidG]

Originally posted by Gryphin:
Hiding file extentions makes sence when you have seen as many files with the wrong extentions as I have.

The flip side of that coin is that now you have a whole bunch of new Users who don't know what 'file extension' means. (ie my parents ) I suspect if MS really thought about it they could come up with a better way to prevent the uneducated user from accidentaly changing a file extension (and possibly even educating them as to what those Last 4 characteres mean).
Actually since windows warns you if you change a file extension it doesn't really require much thought at all. instead of having an option to hide file extension how about an option to allow you to change file extension which defaults to NO.