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Josh1 Administrator |
posted January 03, 2006 08:53 PM
 
I am glad that worked for you. You are very welcome for the help. ------------------ For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged |
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jonnyj Member |
posted January 03, 2006 08:02 PM
Great, that fixed it. ! Un-hiding the extensions for known files. I vaguely remember making that change for some reason. Now I know what to do if something similar happens again. thanks for the quick help... this will save me a lot of time. Now I can just 'rename' and type, rather than needing to also leave, or retype, the extension. JonJ IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted January 02, 2006 10:17 PM
I did, I hope you had a wonderful holiday as well. Alright, then try this for the extension problem go to Control Panel\Folder Options and make sure hide known file extensions is checked. Did the theme change work? ------------------ For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged |
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jonnyj Member |
posted January 02, 2006 09:59 PM
Thanks. I hope you had a pleasant holiday and new years  okay, One of them was on XP Modified, so I changed them both to XP. When I clicked "yes" that I did want to change the extension, it renamed the file without the extension, and the file lost it's icon (and became a misc file icon). And when I clicked to open it, it resulted in a "open with" window popping up. JonJ IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted January 02, 2006 02:54 PM
So lets try this, go to the display applet make sure your theme is not on classic mode. Then go to appearance also in the display applet again make sure your are not in classic mode. You can change the extension, that message is by design, I think, because it happens on my system also. ------------------ For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged |
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jonnyj Member |
posted December 30, 2005 05:31 PM
Hi, I would appreciate any help in fixing this issue. It wasn't hindering me much, but I also notice that other XP features have disappeared. Such as the ability to rename a file without needing to also type the extension. I have XP on another machine, and I can 'rename' then type a name, and 'enter'. On this machine, when I rename a file without including the extension(.pdf, .mp3, etc), it tells me 'changing the file name extension may make the file unstable'. It would help me a lot to have this work again how it used to Thanks IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted June 06, 2005 01:30 AM
We can surely help you with this if you wish, just let us know. It is what we do, all we can do to try to help you out. Your welcome just let us know if you want to work on this anymore. ------------------
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jonnyj Member |
posted June 05, 2005 05:02 PM
hmm, Actually, I think I'll stay with the win200o-style. The world 'My Computer" icon is nice, and I'm sure there are people who have bigger issues than icons, and your time as well. Thank you for all you do here, giving your time and effort IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted June 04, 2005 11:32 PM
Do you have the classic theme enabled? If not then go ahead and do the classic theme, then enable the olive green or the blue one, or whichever one you want, does that help? ------------------
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jonnyj Member |
posted June 04, 2005 03:09 PM
I noticed my system icons seemed to revert to win2000-style. I can get into the screen to choose the XP options, but when I choose them, the desktop,etc still shows the win2000-style icons. How can I get the XP-style icons back. I have XP Home SP2 thanks! IP: Logged |
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