Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\
Name:
Win95TruncatedExtensions
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0default NT behavior
Value: 1win95-like behavior
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- Win95 truncated extensions support in Windows NT
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- Windows Server 2008/2003/2000/XP/NT Administrator Knowledge Base
- Section(s): Miscellaneous
- Published on Apr 20, 2004.
- Last Modified on Apr 20, 2004.
- Last Modified by Wayne Maples.
- Rating: Not Rated
Certain command file operations: dir, del, copy, and move may not operate as
expected. NT may be set to operate like Win95 on file name extensions. For
example "del *.htm" would delete .htm and .html extensions in Win9X and in NT if
its default behaviour has been changed to emulate Win9x behaviour.
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