yeah feeling pretty stupid here. I have problem in renaming the file that is already recognized by windows. You know the standard way is clicking on the file one with the mouse and rename the file name. my problem I need to rename the file from AVI to RM (real media), any way on how to do it? tried doing the usual right clicking but i never had an option to change an extention, only what program to open with it.

edit: the example i made is my current probelm.

[ 05-10-2006, 11:26 AM: Message edited by: Harkoliar ]

I'm not sure if this helps but, I'll try..

So, you have a .txt file called Noname.
Then you try to edit the name.
Then you simply type noname.doc .
I think that'll work.

Just press F2. That should do it. [img]smile.gif[/img]

hmmm.. i think doc and text are easy to rename since they can be renamed using "save-as" option. but for .AVI and .RM? thats my current problem

that option is renaming the file but not the file extension. wish it was that easy [img]tongue.gif[/img]

i solved it after searching for programs that actually rename files. geez.

http://www.nonags.com/nonags/fileren.html

thanks for the help though.

My question is, now that the file is renamed, is the format changed?

I can simply do it by changing the name.

If I have a video called video.avi, I simply right click it, choose rename, remove the .avi part and type .rm in it's place.

nope the format of the file didnt change using the regular method, i used a freeware program to do it for me.

[ 05-10-2006, 12:11 PM: Message edited by: Harkoliar ]

for some reason, i never had that option in renaming the AVI file extention itself since windows has already recognized the format for it.

but i had solved it now. thanks for the suggestions guys

What you need to do is go to tools -> options in Windows Explorer and uncheck the box that says "do not display extension for known file types" (or something similar). You will then be able to change the extension by renaming the file as normal.

One of the more annoying default settings I think!

Simply changing the extension doesn't change the format/content of the file. It's just a peculiarity of Windows that the content of a file is judged by a part of the name.

Yeah, that's the most annoying windows setting. Every time I install windows I disable it asap.

[ 05-10-2006, 01:44 PM: Message edited by: Luvian ]

Erm... If you just change the extension by renaming it... Is that going to even work? Because they are completely different formats...

But you found a program... Which is what I would have recommended...

ahhh problem solved indeed! thanks for this!