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garystark🇦🇫

is there a GPO for "show file extensions"?

Is there a group policy that I can apply to our users to show file extensions?

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Lazarus🇺🇸

There is no setting in the default templates to do this. The VB script
below will do this however, if you'd lke to distrbute this via script:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
strComputer = "."
Set objReg = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer &
"\root\default:StdRegProv")
strKeyPath = "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced"
objReg.CreateKey HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath
ValueName = "HideFileExt"
dwValue = 1
objReg.SetDWORDValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, ValueName, dwValue

Lazarus🇺🇸

Hmm.. it used to work.. Seems to have a comile problem.. Perhaps someone with more VB Experience can hope in here and help fix that. ;)

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Thanks lazarus, much appreciated.

(Given M$'s alleged emphasis on security I can't believe there isn't a GPO for this. Making users more aware of what kind of file they're opening seems like such a no brainer.)

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Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).