need a registry hack desperately

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is there a way to kill the dumb "if you change a file name extension, ..."
warning (when renaming extensions) for good? there's gotta be some value in
the registry that i could edit to get rid of this annoying pop-up. pls help.
 
no, no, no David (thanks for your reply) - i do need to change file
extensions once in a while - i just want windows to do that "silently",
without the pop-up requiring confirmation. is that possible?
 
Richard said:
no, no, no David (thanks for your reply) - i do need to change file
extensions once in a while - i just want windows to do that
"silently", without the pop-up requiring confirmation. is that
possible?
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Command Prompt.
"rename" or "ren".
Or some third party application.

I know of no way to turn this off because I don't know of anyone that
changes that many file extensions without using some mass-changing utility
or command prompt script. =)
 
i usually need to rename one or two file extensions once in a few hours.
using a renamer (which i have on this machine) just for that doesn't make
much sense. command prompt... or answering windows' pop-up question each time
i do that are also quite equally inconvenient. i think MS should come up with
some simple option to disable this behavior in explorer.
 
Richard said:
i usually need to rename one or two file extensions once in a few
hours. using a renamer (which i have on this machine) just for that
doesn't make much sense. command prompt... or answering windows'
pop-up question each time i do that are also quite equally
inconvenient. i think MS should come up with some simple option to
disable this behavior in explorer.
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Unfortunately for you then, it seems you are stuck. =(

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_21331200.html
 
i usually need to rename one or two file extensions once in a few hours.
using a renamer (which i have on this machine) just for that doesn't make
much sense. command prompt... or answering windows' pop-up question each
time
i do that are also quite equally inconvenient. i think MS should come up
with
some simple option to disable this behavior in explorer.
Click to expand...

Just try to get into the habit of hitting Enter twice when you rename an
extension, just like I got so used to hitting Shift-Del to delete a file
that I now can't stop doing it even when I try. :-p
 
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