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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Do Not "Hide extensions for known file types"

Di window explorer, menu "Tools > Folder Options > View". Tolonglah uncheck pada kotak "Hide extensions for known file types". Ini antara Windows feature yang paling aku tak suka. Ia mengelirukan, dan kadang-kala merbahaya. Kalau ada malicious program yg mempunyai icon seperti "folder" (tapi sebenarnya ia exe), kita tak tahu dan dgn selambanya meng-doubleclick icon tu. Lalu jatuh ke dalam perangkap encik malicious person yang mempunyai tujuan yang malicious. Teringat benda ni bila baca blog J.Miller, pasal a tear-your-hair-out kind of bug" yg dia dapat. Which was caused by leaving the "hide extensions for known file types" checkbox checked. Pendek kata, hiding extensions for known file types is sux and lame. Don't be a sux0r or lamer.

2 Comments:

At 6/06/2006 06:22:00 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I dislike the Hide known file extension type too. It's hard to work with some files without comfortably knowing it's extension.

I also dislike how windows hides the absolute path in its explorer address bar. Like "Program Files", instead of "C:\Program Files"

Those two are a must change for me when using a windows computer.

btw, i've created a community blog = http://blog.fakap.net, feel free to email if you want to become one of the guest bloggers

 
At 6/07/2006 11:29:00 pm, Blogger Ikhwan Hayat said...

Yep.. me too.. i mean, i dislike that too..

thanks for the invite, but i think i'm not a fakap material :)
takdelah.. satu blog cukup lah..

 

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