How To Show File Extension In Windows 7 With Keyboard Shortcut

Ever wonder how you can show file extension in Windows 7? (This applies to Vista as well) Now you can toggle to show/off file extension with one keyboard shortcut. Thanks to Hot-To-Geek, you can now show the file extension just like the old days. To do this you need to download a program, get it here. After you’ve install the program, this will auto run at start up, meaning whenever your PC starts this program will run in the background.

 

 

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With the hot key WINDOWS+Y


You can stop the program running via going to the task manager -> ToggleFileExt.exe -> End Process