One of the most frustrating defaults in Windows is that garbage setting of "hide known file extensions". That's the first thing to disable in the Explorer. Especially since for decades, every script kiddie is betting on that by naming their malware "invoice.pdf.exe" and have Windows conveniently hide that the file is NOT a document, but an executable.
For the algorithm
One of these days I'll put this stuff on github
One of the most frustrating defaults in Windows is that garbage setting of "hide known file extensions". That's the first thing to disable in the Explorer. Especially since for decades, every script kiddie is betting on that by naming their malware "invoice.pdf.exe" and have Windows conveniently hide that the file is NOT a document, but an executable.
We're gonna have to set the file extensions like that in the next video. Thanks for letting us know!