Turn On or Off Shortcut Name Extension in Windows 10  

rdwray said:

Well this use to work, but now I am having a problem. I can change the value of "Link" to "00 00 00 00", but Windows 10 changes it to some random value for the first "00" as soon and I create a shortcut. The really amazing part is the registry shows "00 00 00 00" until you double click on it and then it shows the changed value in the edit box. I am running 1809 .348. Also, I just did a repair install.

Hello mate,

Did you use the .reg file in the tutorial?

Just to verify, did you also do this below?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\NamingTemplates

Delete ShortcutNameTemplate string value

Great news.

Hi Shawn:

After I upgraded from 1909 to 1204, Windows made numerous changes, including changing any new Example shortcuts to Example - Shortcut. Your bat file works fine in Version 1204, but I'm wondering if I could have made the changes manually. I changed the

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer link Binary to 00 00 00 00, but that didn't work. I don't think that I had a key

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\NamingTemplates"

but I've been making so many changes since the upgrade that I'm not sure.

I don't know the effect of all the parameters that are in your bat files, but could you include the manual steps in your tutorial?

Thank you in advance.

phrab said:

Hi Shawn:

After I upgraded from 1909 to 1204, Windows made numerous changes, including changing any new Example shortcuts to Example - Shortcut. Your bat file works fine in Version 1204, but I'm wondering if I could have made the changes manually. I changed the

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer link Binary to 00 00 00 00, but that didn't work. I don't think that I had a key

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\NamingTemplates"

but I've been making so many changes since the upgrade that I'm not sure.

I don't know the effect of all the parameters that are in your bat files, but could you include the manual steps in your tutorial?

Thank you in advance.

Hello phrab,

The .bat file will add and modify those registry values, and then restart the explorer.exe process to apply.

Since one of the values is a binary value, using the .bat file to add it is recommended to avoid mistakes.

The file extension will show on the second or shortcut tab in the right-click, Properties of a shortcut. The first or General tab won't show it will show where the shortcut file is located and the Shortcut tab shows where the actual program is located. The shortcut shows as a link.

With Win10 it's difficult to get that information from the Tiles, the icon on the Taskbar for open programs or from the list of programs on Start but works good when on the Desktop.

You're welcome.