Thanks, Sergey. Maybe you could help me further: I am getting an error -106 : "data type for value is not a data string".

I see in the registry the HideFileExt type is REG_DWORD.

My code is:

SET proc to HOME()+"samples\classes\registry.prg"
o=CREATEOBJECT("registry")
? TRANSFORM(o.getregkey("HideFileExt", @cValue, "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced", HKEY_CURRENT_USER)

Any suggestions?

Thank you.




>You can try to read the registry key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\HideFileExt.
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>>Does anyone know how to programatically read the "Hide File Extension" option of Windows Explorer using a Windows API? I've been searching with no luck so far.
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>>I handle tech support calls fairly often that deal with a bug in Word 97 automation having to do with this setting, and I would like to programmatically check for this setting on app startup.