Turn
it off to show dotted lines connecting folders, like the folder trees in
some earlier versions of Windows.
Display the full path in the title bar (Classic folders only). This setting does
not affect the Windows Explorer title bar, nor does it have anything to
do with ???Classic??? folders. Instead, it determines whether the full path or
only the bare folder name appears in the taskbar button and in the task
switcher (Alt-Tab window) for each open folder window.
Despite this setting, Explorer??™s title bar never contains any
text at all, and the full path of the current folder is always
shown in the Address box at the top of the window. See
???Navigating files and folders,??? later in this chapter, for more
information on the path box.
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Hidden files and folders. Vista does not show hidden files by default in
Explorer. If you set this option to Show hidden files and folders, any
files with the hidden or system file attribute will be shown in Explorer,
but their icons will still appear semi-transparent.
To hide or unhide a file or folder, right-click it, select Properties,
and change the Hidden option. For quicker access to a
file??™s attributes, try the Change file attributes tool, part of
Creative Element Power Tools (http://www.creativelement.
com/powertools/).
Hide extensions for known file types. Some believe this feature to be one of
Windows??™ biggest annoyances. Filename extensions??”the last few letters
after the dot in a file??™s name??”are hidden by default in Windows,
and have been in every Windows release since Windows 95.
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