Command prompt? How would you use that to change extensions, Ekted?
Maverick - Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:15 am
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"dir" always shows extensions, newb...
Solo Ace - Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:28 am
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Open the command prompt by going to Start -> Run. Type "cmd" as the command you wish to execute, then execute it.
You'll see a black colored window pop up: the command prompt.
In the command prompt you can use commands like cd and dir to browse through the filesystem.
cd [new directory] - Change current directory to new directory. If no parameter was given it lists the current directory.
You can specify .. as new directory to go to the upper directory (if available).
Example: "cd C:\Program Files\Continuum\" to move to the continuum directory on drive C.
dir - List the contents of your current directory.
Now you can use the rename or move command!
rename oldfilename newfilename - Rename a file with oldfilename to newfilename.
Example: rename File.txt File.bat
move oldpath newdestinationpath - Move a file on the filesystem, you can give a new name to the file by just changing it in its destination path.
You could use a batch file too, of course, with:
Code: Show/Hide @echo off
rename File.txt File.bat |
But you probably have no idea how to rename this batch file from .txt to .bat, so that'd be useless!
newb - Sun Jun 05, 2005 12:01 pm
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I would like to thank you for that lovely input MMav you stupid dickhead, go back to www.ssforum.net (where you belong).
Thanks Solo. I understand now. ^^
wEaViL - Sun Jun 05, 2005 2:44 pm
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Normaly cmd.exe will open up and point to C:/documents and settings/current user/ use
Code: Show/Hide cd.. |
Purge - Sun Jun 05, 2005 2:46 pm
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And:
Code: Show/Hide cd\ |
to go back to the root.
Maverick - Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:47 pm
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Go cry with your momma if someone is being mean to you, newb.
Tip:
Code: Show/Hide dir /-N |
To show Win9x/DOS-like dir output
Solo Ace - Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:37 pm
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That's what Mav always does, posting useless crap while I'm writing a longer and actually useful post.
Anyway I'd recommend Ekted's way of checking file extensions.
Not because it's easier and useful if you want to change a file's extension, but because it's more secure to see what the real extension of a file is.
Many people are easy to trick with different file extensions they expect for an icon, so they can actually open a malacious program while expecting an image file.
Users with more experience with computers won't be that easy to be tricked into that, but I still find it easier to have them on so I can see and change extensions whenever I want to.
Maverick - Sun Jun 05, 2005 5:10 pm
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Yup indeed @ 2nd and 3rd paragraph.
The ILOVEYOU virus used that technique to "copy itself over other files". It deleted the original file then copied itself with the name of the original file. So it would have been named "regedit.exe.vbs" for example.
Quite ingenious and interesting
Anyway.. thats way off topic from the simple file renaming.
Smong - Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:00 am
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In windows recorder (right click on a wav), when it comes to saving put the file name in quotes and it will use the exact name. For example "victoryl.wa2". Keep in mind changing the extension from .wav to .wa2 isn't necessary with cont.