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When working with Windows files it’s helpful to know just what type of file you’re working with, right?

Older versions of Windows used to hide the extensions by default. This was known as “Hide extensions for known file types”. It was always a bad idea, and it was used extensively by the bad guys with double extensions as a means of tricking users into running files. You know, LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.VBS and so on.

So, now we have Windows Vista.

Turns out, they still have this feature on by default.

What were they thinking? Does anybody like it like this?

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A fix for this is rather trivial – REMOVE this feature from the Explorer shell altogether. Seems like no other OS has this feature. However, what would be nice is to select only the filename (without the extension) when renaming. Total Commander has it, as well as many file managers under Linux.

“.htaccess” – “Please type a filename!”. ??????

Another annoyance: an inability to create a file like .htaccess (with a leading dot) from Windows Explorer. What I do not understand: WHY IMPOSE such a limitation in the Windows Explorer while the filesystem supports such file names without any problem? For those of you, who are running Vista, is my question: is the problem still here? Are you able to create a file like .htaccess in Windows Explorer?