2: Change current shortcuts.bak to shortcuts.xml

Okay, I did that.

How do I find the other file?  

EDIT:

Hmm, probably should have changed the other xml file first, now I don't know which is which.  Can't find it anyway.

Here's what I've got.  The Shortcuts file at the top is the XML file that I just now created when I changed the name of the BAK file.  The second shortcuts file is also a XML file.

I'm going to bed, it's 2:30 a.m.

Moses didn't add "Thou shalt not see extensions" to the commandments.

TURN THE F'CKERS ON, OR FOREVER WANDER BLINDLY THROUGH YOUR COMP!

OK .. new idea.

Go to:  C:\Users\Causey\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\

OPEN briefcase. Make sure file in  there is 884 and is called  shortcuts.xml.

Drag shortcuts.xml from briefcase into Roaming\Notepad++\  .. here ..

Say "replace" if it asks.

Check out this guy!

https://askleo.com/file-explorer-display-details/

Peruse the list and you may see other things you might want to change or at least know about. In my opinion, however, they can all be left at their default values, with one very important exception.

[Don’t!] Hide extensions for known file types

This option is important enough to warrant some discussion.

The default setting — to hide extensions for known file types — is not secure and should be changed. UNcheck this option.

Here’s the problem. A “known file type” is something like a “.exe” or “.doc” file type that the system has been configured to know what to do with. Instead of displaying “resume.doc”, for example, File Explorer just displays “resume”, and relies on the “Type” column of the display to alert you to the fact that this is a Word document.

Malware authors try to fool people by placing system files with names like “resume.doc.exe” on your machine. “.exe” is a known file type, so when File Explorer displays this, it displays “resume.doc”. Even though the “Type” column may say “executable program”, reflecting the fact that the full filename ends in “.exe”, you see “resume.doc”, and are very likely to think that this is indeed a document that is safe to open.

The problem is it is not a document, and it is not safe to open. It ends in “.exe” and is an executable program.

You may think that you’re opening “resume.doc”, but you’ll only end up running malware that is packaged in the executable file resume.doc.exe.

Even if you do nothing else, UNcheck this option.

COMPUTER CRUD BONANZA:

It started when the titles under my folders in my groups inventory blanked out.

Then my comp-cleaner gave me an update to 30 days of free PRO-version, which I ran to try to fix that.

Then I could not make new folders. I looked on-line for a couple of hours, and found a free prog that fixed the registers automatically. It worked but then I could not change icons, and still can't. If you make one coding mistake in the registers, it's "RELOAD WINDOWS TIME".

I tried another guy's idea and installed:   [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\
{B4BFCC3A-DB2C-424C-B029-7FE99A87C641}\PropertyBag]"NoCustomize"=dword:00000000

I tried another idea with a batch file
[attrib -r +s D:\FORUMS\CONVERT\HTM_WORK\daveJS\test1]. No good.

I ran my setup disk about 5 times (half hour sessions) to RESTORE, but found out there were no restore points left. My comp fix guy from when I has power supply problems has renamed Vista as Windows-7 so there was confusion as to which hard drive to fix.

Someone online told me to run a command line fix to check memory, "CHKDSK /f/r". It took 3 hours for that to check over 1,999,985 bytes of code, so I stayed up till 2:00am for that.

When I went to open a folder, VCC Media Player tried to open it. I noticed it was next in line in the right-click menu after OPEN FILE. A guy online had the same problem. He used right-click OPEN to open folders. Luckily there were 2 ways to open showing in right-click.

Hours of online searching proved fruitless. It was all fixes for Windows 7/8/10/11.
I got an idea about the right-click context menu. I deleted the VCC media player from the registry, but forgot to back it up. Luckily it worked. Now I could open folders with just a click.

I opened folders setup and poked a few items there. EVERY folder lost its title. Went back and poked some more. Fortunately my folder titles came back, don't know why. It was random pokes!

Anyway, I'm still looking  for how to fix the icon problem. The old folders still have their icons, but no way to change them, and new folders are just regular icons.

Changing my name to:
Taylor Woe

OMG, what a headache!  I'd be pulling my hair out! 

DID you try this, Joe?

*** TIME FOR A BREAK ***

That's 81 cells with different ID, by the way!

Also, did you get post-884 shortcuts.xml into the roaming directory?

That is neat! 

No, I haven't messed with it.

I'm taking a break from the aggravation.

That job is just a RENAME, COPY and PASTE.

Try this one.

~ FLIP-FLOP V1 ~

01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10

Reverse X's with O's by clicking them.

Click Start First.

Took me 11 tries to get them all switched.

Here's what I've got.  The Shortcuts file at the top is the XML file that I just now created when I changed the name of the BAK file.  The second shortcuts file is also a XML file.

I'm going to bed, it's 2:30 a.m.

GET TO Npp VIA START TAB, AS BEFORE: 

C:\Users\Causey\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++

DELETE THE shortcuts.xml FILE IN THERE (WITH RIGHT-CLICK).

DON'T CLOSE ROAMING FOLDER.

OPEN BRIEFCASE (WITH DOUBLE LEFT CLICK).

DRAG BRIEFCASE shortcuts.xml FILE IN TO TAKE DELETED ONE'S PLACE.

CLOSE WHATEVER FOLDERS ARE OPEN.

DONE.

I may get back to this tonight.

3-steps to Nirvana:

1: Open roaming Npp folder.

2: Open briefcase

3: Drag shortcuts.xml from briefcase into Npp folder and overwrite.