Filename
extensions (e.g., .txt, .jpg, .doc) determine how Windows interacts with
your documents, and hiding this information only makes it harder to
distinguish different files. See ???File Type Associations,??? in Chapter 3,
for a further explanation of why you??™ll probably want to turn off this
option and leave it off.
Hide protected operating system files. When this option is turned on (the
default), files with the system file attribute are hidden in Explorer,
regardless of the Hidden files and folders option, discussed earlier. Socalled
system files include most of the boot loader files discussed in
Chapter 1, the $RECYCLE.BIN and System Volume Information folders
found on every hard drive, the hiberfil.sys hibernation file (see
Chapter 5), and a handful of other files. Leave this option turned on to
protect these important files from accidental damage, or turn it off if
you want to see and mess around with them.
Launch folder windows in a separate process. By default, the desktop,
Start menu, and all open Explorer and single-folder windows are handled
by the same instance of Explorer. That is, only one copy of the
Explorer.exe application is ever in memory. If you turn on this option,
each Explorer window will use a new instance of the program. Although
this takes slightly more memory and may slightly increase the time it
takes to open new Explorer windows, it means that if one Explorer window
crashes??”see ???Green Ribbon of Death??? in Chapter 6??”it won??™t
bring them all down.
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