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disable file name extension warning

Anonymous
2010-03-18T22:39:05+00:00

Windows 7 is much better with messages I've found, allowing me to shut down most of the boxes asking me if I want to do what was clearly written on the button I just clicked but one remains which has always irritated me - if I change a filename extension it's because I WANT the file to behave differently.  Is there still no way to get rid of the message?

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-08-11T01:25:29+00:00

    I have to disagree with you here. The default setting is already set to "hide known file extensions" which would mean someone would have already had to change that setting to encounter this warning in the first place. That would indicate to me that user already can be excluded from your "typical" pool of less technically literate users. 

    You are ignoring the fact that people who wish to disable this notification are clearly not in that pool of less technically literate users either. I understand the intention to protect less educated users but why ban the more literate ones from disabling [what becomes] an incessantly persistent warning about something they're already well aware of.

    I am a web developer and I have to say "OK"  to this prompt about hundred times a day, no joke.

    If I wanted to be constantly blocked on how to configure my machine I would buy a Macintosh.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-09-19T16:33:10+00:00

    Yes, exactly! Please enable the ability to turn that annoying, time-wasting dialog off. Please!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-12-27T07:07:40+00:00

    This thread is an example of the low priority that quality has at Microsoft and in the industry in general. The answers from the "guys with badges" are pathetic. It's 2012 and it hasn't gotten better.

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  4. @CmdrKeene 90,616 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2010-03-20T04:08:20+00:00

    Hi.  I searched the net and couldn't find anything either... but I agree with you:  I know what I'm doing, I have file extensions visible, and I hate that warning.  I recommend sending feedback http://mymfe.microsoft.com/Windows%207/Feedback.aspx?formID=195.

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-10-24T07:15:46+00:00

    I'm aboslutely sure that in 99.9% of a file extension change, the change is made on purpose. There is no reason to prompt a warning in all of these cases. And even when it accidently happens - is it that critical - I would just rename it back...

    PLEASE Microsoft: Create a SUPERUSER Mode - no stupid prompts anymore. Superusers know what they are doing - every click and every keystroke! Please make once something for the longtime users that know how to use Windows and love it (if Windows would not always think that each user is stupid)

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