[OT] explorer:compress'd files in alternate co... by Peter Shute

[OT] explorer:compress'd files in alternate co [Help!]

By: Peter Shute
Date: May 07,2003 at 09:27
In Response to: [OT] explorer:compress'd files in alternate co (Steve Rawling)

> ??? Are you saying that at installation, the zip extension is automatically
> associated with a certain Zip compression exe?

No, just that the default Windows setting is NOT to show extensions. I often have to help users here because when they have several files with the same name but different extension. e.g they may try to open a Word document in Excel. Or they may overwrite a file of the wrong type like you did, irrespective of whether it has a little picture or not. Unlike you there is very little chance they'll understand how it happened. I think it's a dumb default.

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