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Rename file extension with "Hide extensions" enabled...

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I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no, but thought I'd take one more stab and post here.

It seems like there ought to be a way to change a file extension without turning off "Hide extensions of known file types" and without a command prompt window.

My customer's servers have extensions hidden by default so I have put a batch file out there. I create a text doc, put the contents of the batch file in, then rename it to .cmd.

Which of course, all that does is rename it to .cmd.txt.

It would be a really useful feature if I could pre-fix the file name to tell Windows Explorer that I want to literally name the file .cmd.

Like, wrapping the file name in double-quotes, i.e.; "batchfile.cmd" would rename the extension.

There's no feature I'm missing to do this right? I'm stuck bringing up a command prompt to rename the file or turning off "Hide extensions?"


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