Extended Characters in Short Filenames (Windows NT/2000/XP)

This setting allows extended characters to be used in 8.3 filenames. Short file names with extended characters may not be viewable on computers that do not have the same character code page.

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Open your registry and find or create the key below.

Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called "NtfsAllowExtendedCharacterIn8dot3Name" and set it according to the value data below.

Exit your registry; you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect.

		(Default)	REG_SZ	(value not set)
		NtfsAllowExtendedCharacterIn8dot3Name	REG_DWORD	0x00000001 (1)

	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSyst...

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