Shortcut and extension

[surrender]

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.

[admin]

1) shell does it
2) XY does it

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

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.

[surrender]

Jolly good.

[j_c_hallgren]

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.

[surrender]

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.