Untick option in Windows Explorer programmatically "Vensia" <vensia2000_nospam[ at ]yahoo.com> 11.07.2006 08:10:25 Dear all, In Access, how to untick option in Windows Explorer - Tools - Folder Options - Hide file extensions for known file types programmatically ? Thanks. Vensia

Re: Untick option in Windows Explorer programmatically "Douglas J Steele" <NOSPAM_djsteele[ at ]NOSPAM_canada.com> 11.07.2006 12:25:23 I'm not sure you can. That's an operating-system wide setting anyhow, so you really shouldn't be futzing with it from one application when other applications may not want it reset. -- Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP http://I.Am/DougSteele (no e-mails, please!) "Vensia" <vensia2000_nospam[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote in message news:u8QctFMpGHA.1548[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > Dear all, > > In Access, how to untick option in Windows Explorer - Tools - Folder > Options - Hide file extensions for known file types programmatically ? > Thanks. > > Vensia > >

Re: Untick option in Windows Explorer programmatically "Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick[ at ]nospam.gmail.com> 12.07.2006 10:00:23 You can use regwrite method of VBScript to modify the Reg_Dword value of 'HideFileExt' found at; HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced Then run after the change. RunDll32.exe USER32.DLL,UpdatePerUserSystemParameters ,1 ,True -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Vensia" wrote: | Dear all, | | In Access, how to untick option in Windows Explorer - Tools - Folder | Options - Hide file extensions for known file types programmatically ? | Thanks. | | Vensia | |