Allow extended characters in 8.3 filenames

By | 2007-05-03

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.

Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControlFileSystem]
Value Name: NtfsAllowExtendedCharacterIn8dot3Name
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Data: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)

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