• abcd@feddit.de
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    6 months ago

    You can’t imagine how much I hate this setting. A couple of weeks ago I helped a guy install some specific software on a windows machine provided by the customer. It’s like one exe with a config file. Pretty basic. My instructions were:

    1. Copy the exe to a specific path
    2. Create a new text file in the same path and copy paste this provided text into the file
    3. Rename file to abc.xml

    The exe was throwing errors because of the missing config file. Of course the filename was abc.xml.txt 💩

    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      This is part of what helped the I love you virus to spread. Not too many idiots would open a file titled ILoveYou.txt.vbs, but even some smarter people will turn their brains off if they get a file titled ILoveYou.txt, possibly even me, except the first thing I do with a new computer is unhide file extensions.

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      6 months ago

      That setting is one of the first things I change on any Windows I get my hands on.

      It is all around dumb.