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by tknorris

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How do you force acceptance of an uppercase folder name in Windows NT. With W98 you could explicitly do this via the View menu (folder options)?

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by ugotdave

Please forgive me if I misunderstood your question.

All you have to do is create the folder how you want it to be. NT will accept and keep Upper or Lowercase logic of the folder by default. If you want your folder to be named WoW, or wOW just type it. The only thing that matters in NT is passwords, they are case sensitive.

by tknorris

I know that I may be splitting hairs, however, while your two examples do work I still cannot name a folder "WOW" (note: all uppercase). If I insert spaces between each letter then I am successful (i.e. W O W). This is okay, but I just wanted to know if there was some way to do this in plain english with all caps. Thanks for the help!

by mpdcsup

Drop down the Tools Menu in Windows NT Explorer and choose Folder Options...

In the Folder Options dialog, click on the View tab. Put a check-mark in "Allow all uppercase names" in Advanced Settings.

This procedure may not work on all installations of Windows NT 4.0. Specifically, I don't recall if there is a dependence on the Desktop Update (from IE 4) being installed.

When you create a folder or file in Windows NT (regardless of the setting mentioned above), the directory or file is created with the name just as typed (upper/lower).

The setting above only instructs NT not to make the files names appear uniform.

by mpdcsup

You may get this setting to work via the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Create or edit the DWORD value named "DontPrettyPath" and set the value to 1.

by tknorris

First of all there is no Folder Options under the Tools menu heirarchy (the Options command and View tab are under the VIEW menu. Second there is no upper/lowercase option in the view tab. While you can create a folder with names such as Wow, wOW, WoW, or W O W, you cannot do all caps (the W O W example contains spaces between each letter). I know that I may be splitting hairs, however, I just wanted to know if there was some way to do this in plain english with ALL caps. Thanks for the help!(P.S. No Advanced in the registry path given.)

by mpdcsup

Installing the IE4 desktop update will give you the option I mentioned. It may be a bit much for you though because you have to uninstall IE5, install IE4 (with the update) and then upgrade back to IE5.

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