Important Adjustments and Tweaks
You’re probably familiar with Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s web browser. The other Explorer you need to know about is File Explorer, the program behind the desktop itself, and the one that you use to browse the contents of your Documents, Pictures, and other folders. By default, it hides some information about files, and we want to give you the option of seeing that hidden information.
Disable Hide Extensions for Known File Types
By default, File Explorer hides the file extension at the end of most filenames: this is the .doc at the end of a Word document, the .xls at the end of an Excel spreadsheet, or the .exe at the end of an application program. Hiding the extension makes it more difficult for you to accidentally ...
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