Plz solve these three ?ns

[Siddharth Maheshwari]

Hello frnds I hav 3 ? to ask to u:-
a>How to change the extension of a file in dos - mode
b>My view button has been diabled in the explorer how can i enable it .I searched for its registry entry but as i am a fool i didnt got it.Plz tell me
c>I use i.e 6.Since its my pc therefore i click remember me on this pc .But now in any of the sites it doesnt remeber me and i can delete the exsisting ids.


THanks in advance

 

[::cyborg::]

dont know ur b part but for

a) command is ren c:\1.doc 1.txt (assuming u r using a doc file)

c) use mozilla firefox(will solve ur purpose

and i think u hve used all the smileys

 

[kumarmohit]

For you first question u must either know the extension of the file u want to rename or not.
Now Case 1, u know the extension (say txt to be changed to htm)

ren 1.txt 1.htm

Case 2 U dont know the extension but only the file name say 1 then

ren 1.* 1.htm

 

[Vishal Gupta]

2.) Right-click on toolbar and select "Customize", now u can add "View" button in toolbar.

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

u:-

b>My view button has been diabled in the explorer how can i enable it .I searched for its registry entry but as i am a fool i didnt got it.Plz tell me

You are not a fool because you searched the whole registry for this thing(not many people can do)
And nice smilie show.

 

[Siddharth Maheshwari]

2.) Right-click on toolbar and select "Customize", now u can add "View" button in toolbar.

I mean the nothing happens when i click on the button
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Thanks frnds
Will the ren command chande .dll to .dl_ also
Thanks in advance
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Thanks frnds
Will the ren command change .dll file to .dl_ file also
Thanks in advance
Plz solve my c p[art also

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

But now in any of the sites it doesnt remeber me and i can delete the exsisting ids.
what does that mean?

 

[Vishal Gupta]

@Siddharth
Did u apply my "Enable View Menu on Desktop" hack?

 

[suraj]

@ vishal
the method u gave me to solve the problem "folder option " in tools ,
is that pages ok for sidharth.if yes pl give him

 

[Siddharth Maheshwari]

@Siddharth
Did u apply my "Enable View Menu on Desktop" hack?

Ya after that only the view button has got disabled

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

reapply it then.

 

[Vishal Gupta]

Ya after that only the view button has got disabled

Thats why I asked about it.
That hack always causes this problem, I also mentioned it in that thread.
Whenever we apply that hack, the "View" buton in toolbar stops working!

 

[Siddharth Maheshwari]

Thats why I asked about it.
That hack always causes this problem, I also mentioned it in that thread.
Whenever we apply that hack, the "View" buton in toolbar stops working!

Oh thanks for telling I will find the hack to overvcome this problem
Thanks for replying

 

[Siddharth Maheshwari]

dl_ is compressed dll file(supposing it be from i386 folder)..Use the expand command to extract it...

use the foll command

expand abc.dl_ abc.dll {expand [source] [destination]}

BTW dl_ files can be opened with winrar...

I wnat to ask will ren command change .dll to .dl_ also

 

[Siddharth Maheshwari]

With ren command u can change the extension for a file...but can't change its type.(obviously..)....The dl_ files which are in i386 folder of winXP setup are basically zip files containing the dll....eg..hal.dl_ is actually a zipped file containing hal.dll...

So Obviously u cannot expect a zip file to get converted to a dll just by renaming it...U have to extract it using expand command..

to change the dll files to dl_ u have to compress the file and then rename the file to .dl_..

That means I can change a .zip file to .dl_ file
Also plz tell me the dos command to change the extension of multiple files at a time
I have nearly 1000icons in a folder i want to change them in .bmp plz tell me the command

 

[Vishal Gupta]

^^Buddy! U can't change a filetype using DOS commands.
When U'll rename the file "a.ico" to "a.bmp", it'll not convert the ico file into BMP file. It'll only rename the file but it'll remain an ico file.
U can use various softwares to change filetypes.

And regarding to dl_ files, these are compressed dll files, to create these compressed files u can use following command:

makecab file_name

for example:

makecab shell32.dll

and to extract actual file from these compressed file use following command:

expand old_file_name new_file_name

example:

expand shell32.dl_ shell32.dll

 

[Siddharth Maheshwari]

^^Buddy! U can't change a filetype using DOS commands.
When U'll rename the file "a.ico" to "a.bmp", it'll not convert the ico file into BMP file. It'll only rename the file but it'll remain an ico file.
U can use various softwares to change filetypes.

dude will u tell me some of the freeware softwares for the above thing and plz tell how u know this much
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And one more thing can u tell me when we change the background of a window why we use [{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
for example
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
iconarea_image=C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper\VistaBliss .jpg
iconarea_text=0x00FFFFFF
Thanks in advance

 

[Vishal Gupta]

1.) Open the ico file in mspaint and then Save as the file to BMP file.
2.) Knowledge comes with experience.
3.) Coz this string is hardcoded into windows shell and used for "Folder Settings". Many such strings are used for other tasks, like:

{8BEBB290-52D0-11d0-B7F4-00C04FD706EC} for Thumbnails View.

 

[ilugd]

if you have a lot of ico files, irfanview's batch convert would be a better bet, wouldn't it be, vishal?

 

[Vishal Gupta]

^^ Indeed.