Windows Explorer Column, "Ext"

You're welcome. I wish that I could have helped. Hopefully someone may come along and know a way to.

Is this what you mean?

Hello Dwarf,

Strange. I don't have File extension listed in my "More" details window like yours above.

I'm actually posting that from Windows 8 7989.

Check the available options for column headers. It could be that you were just thinking of Extension (which doesn't exist, thereby making you think that what you want to do can't be done) and File extension, which, as I have shown above and you have already affirmed as being what you want, does.

I did run this first, though (and got no error messages), so it might be worth a shot: http://www.xrayz.co.uk/extension-column/

The biggest part of my problem is in explaining the difference between Type and Ext (called File Extension in Win-8). One of the links below shows a fix for WE that adds an Ext column but it's only good for XP and before. The program author informs me that he can't provide the same thing for Win-7/Vista because MS "took the ability away".

Why anyone would consider Ext, or File Extension any less important than name, size or attribute is beyond me.

Thanks Dwarf for the heads-up. Guess now I'll have to look forward to Win-8. Hopefully someone will come up with a "correction" to this WE flaw before then though.

I just caught the fact that you've tested the fix and got no errors. Is that on Win-7? And does it add the missing column?

Have you tried running/installing that extension anyway? Let me boot up my W7 installation, and I'll report back in a while.

Just checked, and that option does not exist in W7, both before and after running that program. By no errors I mean that the program appears to run successfully.

Guess the option must have been added back to the Windows 8 Explorer.