Gaston Gagnon wrote:

> Alexandre Souza wrote:
>
>>> This is true, but only if you stupidly leave the default setting for
>>> 'Show
>>> extensions of known file types' as false.
>>> That is a VERY dangerous things to do!
>>
>>
>>
>>     No, my computer is configured to show extensions...
>
>
>
> I did your test: create a file named z.txt, rename it to z.txt.pif and
> it shows z.txt. More when I click on it I get the message: "z.txt.pif is
> not a valid win32 application".
>
> I use win2000 and the Files Options "Hide the known extension files" is
> not selected !!!!!
>
> I'm stunned :-o
>
> What else could be wrong ?
>

Thanks to Dal Wheeler. The .pif extensions are not hidden anymore.

Gaston

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