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I have a playlist called xxx.pls. I can create shortcuts in two ways:

1) When i right-click on this and choose create shortcut, it creates 'shortcut to xxx.lnk'.

2) But if I right-click and drag xxx.pls and release it on the same or different tab and then choose create shortcut(s) here, then i get 'xxx.pls.lnk'.

Isnt it inconsistent?? or was it meant for some other purpose?

This led me to a question if I could remove the extension '.pls' from the filename 'xxx' so that I get a shortcut 'xxx.lnk' rather than 'xxx.pls.lnk'. But so far I have not found a way to do it. I have the 'hide file extensions for known file types' turned on in windows explorer.

1) shell does it
2) XY does it

Hence the difference. Using TweakUI you can configure the shell to behave like XY

surrender wrote:This led me to a question if I could remove the extension '.pls' from the filename 'xxx' so that I get a shortcut 'xxx.lnk' rather than 'xxx.pls.lnk'. But so far I have not found a way to do it. I have the 'hide file extensions for known file types' turned on in windows explorer.

No, I'm pro-extension: XY will always show all extensions.

Jolly good.

I could never understand why anyone would ever NOT want to see extensions! It makes finding files so much easier (IMHO) and reduces the chance that one will be fooled by a bad file that pretends to be another type, as I recall.

j_c_hallgren wrote:I could never understand why anyone would ever NOT want to see extensions! It makes finding files so much easier (IMHO) and reduces the chance that one will be fooled by a bad file that pretends to be another type, as I recall.

I meant removing extension only partly i.e. in the name column because one can see it in the Ext column anyway. But I dont mind seeing it twice.