To be fair, it was most likely to protect against people renaming files and accidently erasing their extensions. Plus, I think it's pretty likely that anyone who gets duped by a file like that probably wouldn't know enough to see a problem if extensions were enabled.

But anyway, yes, just do as NV instructed.

True, but some would probably just ignore it.

I knew I'd made a screenshot of that before!

oh and kolya, that doesn't tell me how to change the file extension, only how to make them visible

i am inknept when it comes to computers apparrently, cause i still can't figure it out. my brother said just rename it but that made no difference

is this on all O.S. or just vista?