How To: Show File Extension By Default In Windows CE Explorer

Tired of going into Windows Explorer on CE to the view Options and switch on the defaults for showing file extensions and etc., you can achieve the same with adding these registry keys.

Sometimes the Windows CE application developers feel the redundancy of unchecking the default Folder Options Advanced Settings in Windows CE.

We will have to uncheck the options as shown below.

• Do not show hidden files and folders
• Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)
• Hide file extensions

Additionally, you may even include this registry script in Platform Builder for Windows CE to make the settings manifested by default in your Windows CE image.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Explorer]
"ShowSys"=dword:00000001
"ViewAll"=dword:00000001
"ShowExt"=dword:00000001

Hope this helps.