I know, how to Display my file extensions.

But I wish set this by default for all the users defined in XP home edition, especially for the users with "restricted access", who cannot set this themselves (as they don't have access to the specific Control Panel).

Feel free to speak technically -- to an experienced *linux* user and kind of root. I never wanted XP to appear on the machines.

Thanks very much, Andrew.

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This should work: copy the following into Notepad and save as a .reg file.  Then 
Merge the .reg file.

---begin---
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"HideFileExt"=dword:00000000

--end--

For any given user, this setting is kept at:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
the HideFileExt string is set to 0 (no hide) or 1 (hide).
(Wasn't hard to find.)

Generally speaking, you can make a setting for any particular user the default for 
new users by copying the key and data from 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
to
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\
(Makes a certain amount of sense, no?)





On Monday, November 11, 2002 at 8:35 am, Ondrej Bojar wrote:
>I know, how to Display 
>my file extensions.


>

>But I wish set this by default for all the users defined in XP home edition, especially 
>for the users with "restricted access", who cannot set this themselves (as they 
don't 
>have access to the specific Control Panel).

>

>
Feel free to speak technically -- to an experienced *linux* user and kind of 
root. 
>I never wanted XP to appear on the machines.

>

>
Thanks very much, Andrew.

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