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   Ardent Spirit to All   
   Re: The complete folder / file name is N   
   11 Aug 10 10:00:22   
   
   From: jaapREMOVETHISP@RTbiopolymers.nl   
      
   On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:19:55 GMT, "Emma Frost"    
   enriched cyberspace with these bytes:   
      
   >   
   >> This is a -I guess little known- feature in Windows (at least I know about   
   >> it in   
   >> XP but probably functions the same in Vista and W7):   
   >> when you have a view other than Thumbnail view in explorer and you then   
   >> shift to   
   >> Thumbnail view, holding the Shift key will toggle filenames on or off   
   >> under the   
   >> thumbnails (depending on how it was previously). This will only work for   
   >> Thumbnail view, other views are not affected.   
   >>   
   >> You probably have changed this unintentionally, so to get back to what you   
   >> were   
   >> used to: choose for instance Details in the View menu, then hold Shift and   
   >> choose Thumbnails again. Your filenames should be there again.   
   >   
   >THANKS!!!! It worked :-DDD   
   >   
   >> This info can be found online, but is strongly dependent on your search   
   >> terms in   
   >> Google.   
   >> First hit on these search terms: xp explorer hide filename -extension   
   >> thumbnail   
   >>   
   >> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/84764-35-windows-explorer   
   showing-picure-file-names   
   >   
   >Exactly, I looked it up both in English and Italian (I am from Italy) and   
   >couldn't find anything - not even on Microsoft site!   
   >   
   >Thanks a lot, again! IOU :-)   
   >   
   You're welcome!   
      
   It is also a nice little feature if you want to mess with co-workers :)   
      
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