{"id":14,"date":"2006-09-05T14:19:33","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T19:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2008-08-04T12:09:41","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T17:09:41","slug":"windows-xp-hidden-files-bootini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2006\/09\/windows-xp-hidden-files-bootini\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP Hidden Files Boot.ini"},"content":{"rendered":"

Working in an IT environment, I find myself needing to make a lot of visual basic (.vbs) and batch files (.bat). Windows XP, in it’s infinite wisdom, defaults to hide the file name extensions that I need to change. Here’s a simple diagram on how to view these file extensions.<\/p>\n

main window<\/a><\/p>\n

Here you’ll see that I tried to make a batch file (.bat), but it’s still just a text file. Windows naming is then “batchfile.bat.txt”. In order for this file to run as a batch file, it needs to be “batchfile.bat”.<\/p>\n

\"folder<\/p>\n

In any Windows explorer window, click on “Tools” and select “Folder Options…”<\/p>\n

Then you’ll see this window:<\/p>\n

\"folder<\/p>\n

If you uncheck “Hide extensions for known file types” you will be able to see .doc, .bat, .txt, .html, .rtf and the like.<\/p>\n

If you select “Show hidden files and folders” you’ll be able to see most of the hidden Windows folders and files throughout the system.<\/p>\n

If you uncheck “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)” you will be able to see the boot.ini file and edit it as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Working in an IT environment, I find myself needing to make a lot of visual basic (.vbs) and batch files (.bat). Windows XP, in it’s infinite wisdom, defaults to hide the file name extensions that I need to change. Here’s a simple diagram on how to view these file extensions. Here you’ll see that I … Continue reading Windows XP Hidden Files Boot.ini<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}