is there a way to kill the dumb "if you change a file name extension, ..."
warning (when renaming extensions) for good? there's gotta be some value in
the registry that i could edit to get rid of this annoying pop-up. pls help.

Hide file extensions then you won't be able to change the file type.

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"Richard Nickson" <RichardNickson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:153EE68D-BF11-4F75-A86C-62D02B6C0B89@microsoft.com...
> is there a way to kill the dumb "if you change a file name extension, ...."
> warning (when renaming extensions) for good? there's gotta be some value in
> the registry that i could edit to get rid of this annoying pop-up. pls help.

no, no, no David (thanks for your reply) - i do need to change file
extensions once in a while - i just want windows to do that "silently",
without the pop-up requiring confirmation. is that possible?

"David Candy" wrote:

> Hide file extensions then you won't be able to change the file type.
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> "Richard Nickson" <RichardNickson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:153EE68D-BF11-4F75-A86C-62D02B6C0B89@microsoft.com...
> > is there a way to kill the dumb "if you change a file name extension, ...."
> > warning (when renaming extensions) for good? there's gotta be some value in
> > the registry that i could edit to get rid of this annoying pop-up. pls help.
>

Richard Nickson wrote:
> no, no, no David (thanks for your reply) - i do need to change file
> extensions once in a while - i just want windows to do that
> "silently", without the pop-up requiring confirmation. is that
> possible?

Command Prompt.
"rename" or "ren".
Or some third party application.

I know of no way to turn this off because I don't know of anyone that
changes that many file extensions without using some mass-changing utility
or command prompt script. =)

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i usually need to rename one or two file extensions once in a few hours.
using a renamer (which i have on this machine) just for that doesn't make
much sense. command prompt... or answering windows' pop-up question each time
i do that are also quite equally inconvenient. i think MS should come up with
some simple option to disable this behavior in explorer.

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Command Prompt.
> "rename" or "ren".
> Or some third party application.
>
> I know of no way to turn this off because I don't know of anyone that
> changes that many file extensions without using some mass-changing utility
> or command prompt script. =)
>
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>

Richard Nickson wrote:
> i usually need to rename one or two file extensions once in a few
> hours. using a renamer (which i have on this machine) just for that
> doesn't make much sense. command prompt... or answering windows'
> pop-up question each time i do that are also quite equally
> inconvenient. i think MS should come up with some simple option to
> disable this behavior in explorer.

Unfortunately for you then, it seems you are stuck. =(

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Oper..._21331200.html

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>i usually need to rename one or two file extensions once in a few hours.
> using a renamer (which i have on this machine) just for that doesn't make
> much sense. command prompt... or answering windows' pop-up question each
> time
> i do that are also quite equally inconvenient. i think MS should come up
> with
> some simple option to disable this behavior in explorer.

Just try to get into the habit of hitting Enter twice when you rename an
extension, just like I got so used to hitting Shift-Del to delete a file
that I now can't stop doing it even when I try. :-p