RE: [PCTECH] Anyone Running XP Home Edition ?

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Right 98 had it but NT didn't.  Well, maybe if you used that horrible active
desktop IE supplement NT did.  But 2000 gave see file paths and a lot more
options.  Totally agree on the hide file types.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Handy [SMTP:dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 9:07 AM
> To:   PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject:      Re: [PCTECH] Anyone Running XP Home Edition ?
> 
> 
> >For me the single best thing
> >they ever did in windows was make the path appear in windows when you
> >browse.   
> 
> That is just an option you can select in various flavors of windows, along
> with
> a variety of other things.  From an explorer window, take the menu item
> Folder
> Options (which is under Tools in recent editions, and IIRC, under View in
> older
> ones) then the View tab.  Under Advanced settings, put a check by "Display
> the
> full path in the address bar".  
> 
> To me, the single worst default they did -- and the first thing I change
> in any
> installation -- is to "Hide extensions for known file types".  But that's
> just a
> pet peeve of mine.
> 
> Doug
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