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Old 12-02-2008, 11:25 AM   #88
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Originally Posted by bbusybookworm View Post
I do the same thing on my personal machine, but can appreciate the reason for doing so.

If extensions are visible, it can often confuse people, not to mention the fact that it makes it very easy to change the extension (Which I often do) but which can mess up a novice user's computer quiet a bit.
It also allows virus' to hide the fact that they are executable. There is no really good reason in my opinion to hide extension. If you change the extension there is a warning message. That should be enough. Dumbing down the user view only opens the user up to being taken advantage of.

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