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Addendum
Sunday, February 22, 2004 at 6:43 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jerry
(875 messages posted)
After some more experimenting with WIN95-B without the Active Desktop upgrade, but
with just the Registry change originally suggested by the WA tip "DontPrettyPath",
I've come to the conclusion that it works "sort of, sometimes."
Folder names with all caps will always be "prettied."
(FOLDER = Folder)
Folder names with all lowercase letters will be displayed properly.
(folder =
folder)
Folder names with a mixture of upper and lower case letters will be displayed properly.
(folDER
= folDER)
Now it gets messy: If you've got the display option "Hide MS-DOS file extension"
unchecked, so you can see the file extensions in Explorer:
File names with ALL CAPS will always be "prettied".
(FILENAME.TXT = Filename.txt)
File names with ALL LOWER CASE names will be displayed properly.
(filename.txt
= filename.txt)
File names with a MIXTURE of upper an lower case letters, will be displayed accurately.
(FileName.Txt
= FileName.Txt; FILENAME.txt = FILENAME.txt)
If you've got the display option "Hide MS-DOS file extension" checked, so you CAN'T
see the file extensions in Explorer, you may get the appearance of acceptance of
file names with ALL CAPS (FILENAME), but if you do, it's because the unseen extension
is still lowercase (causing a MIXTURE). If you change the unseen extension to ALL
CAPS (in a DOS box, for examble), Explorer now sees "FILENAME.TXT" and will pretty
it to "Filename".
When you RENAME a file in Explorer, the actual file name you type is preserved, even
if it doesn't show in Explorer. For example, use explorer to rename the file "FILENAME.TXT".
Explorer shows "Filename.txt". Look at the file name in a DOS box with the "DIR"
command -- you'll see "FILENAME.TXT".
Isn't this fun?
Jerry
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