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I should have been more clear. I do both those things and always have. I can't get to first base doing anything if I can't see the extension. And always use 'details'. Never used anything else even when I'm not researching. :)You're missing the point. I didn't expect you to dynamically change anything on-the-fly just to see the extensions.
The Folder Options -> View tab -> do not suppress known extensions option is a PERMANENT setting (at least for as long as you have it checked or un-checked). From that point on you will ALWAYS either see or not see the extensions.
If your filenames are long, you can just use "details" mode and spread the first column so that the entire name and extension is completely visible, if that works better for you.
Again, I should have been more clear. I use both of those techniques all the time. Stretching the folder isn't a good option because I need to see at least half the web page I'm on, while scanning the Explorer file simultaneously.Just stretch your window on that folder. Its size and location will be remembered when you close the window, and it will be the at the same place and with the same size when you next re-open that folder.
Also, if you spread the column heading separators so that the column detail data in each cell is fully visible, again that will be remembered by Windows when you close the Explorer window. Next time you re-open that folder the separators will be just where you last spread them.
If you want to be in "details" mode just set it, and spread the columns appropriately. Again, the extension will be easily visible after each file name... even if the mini-icons are not shown.
There should be a screenshot below ...
Anyway, it's hard to explain, but I really need to see half of the webpage at the same time as Explorer. And after much experimentation, stretching so I can see more than half of Explorer window, doesn't work.
But that's why the icons are so important to me. I need to be able to see the file type icons at all times, or it slows me down. And of course that annoys me, as I do this many hours every day.
Can't recall. But I did both this time. I thought the command sequence was going to work for sure, but it didn't. It's something else.You mean the recipe I provided above was NOT how you presumably rebuilt the icon cache? I don't know what alternate technique you had used, but the above command sequence is the right way to do it (as documented by the tutorial on this forum).
Thanks again for your time on this.
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