In the folder options of Windows Explorer, you have configured a setting so that the program lets you view all known types of file extensions. However, the information is still missing for URL files as well as the browser favorites.


Independent of the settings in the folder options, extensions of certain file types will usually not be displayed. You can however remove this restriction. For this, click ‘Start | Run’, enter ‘regedit’ and click on ‘OK’. In the editor, click to the left at the start of the structure on ‘My Computer’ and then select ‘Edit | Find’. Enter the term ‘Never ShowExt’ and click on ‘Find next’. No ‘Value’ is allocated to this character sequence. When adjusting this option, you must thus delete it completely with ‘Edit | Delete’. Confirm the safety query with ‘Yes’. Now press the ‘[F3]’ key to continue searching through the registry. In this way, delete all entries with the name ‘Never ShowExt’ in the registry main branch ‘HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT’. Do not edit any other branches.

Caution: Before deleting, right click on it and click on ‘Export’ to create a copy of the respective key. You can thus double click on it and re-paste it in the registry at any time.

Note: If you want to modify only certain entries, you will find the settings for the important hidden file types ‘.url’, ‘.lnk’ and ‘.scf’ in the branch ‘HKEY_CLASSES_ ROOT’ under the key ‘InternetShortcut’, ‘Inkfile’ and ‘SHCmdFile’.