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For some reason, Windows Explorer has started cutting off everything after a dot (.) in my folder names.

Example:

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Any ideas? I do have TortoiseSVN installed, which provides the icon overlays, but that's never been an issue before.

Also, I'm using Windows 7 64-bit and Hide Extensions for know filetypes is not checked.

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Looks like the 'feature' to hide extensions. Check in the Folder-Options (you can find it in the Control Panel, and then the tabpage View) for it.

Edit: Oh, in that case sorry, this is the only discussion which I found whcih comes close to your problem.

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This is -supposed- to just be for files, but it's the first thing that I thought of too. If it IS infact a solution, there must still be a deeper problem. – Phoshi Feb 23 '10 at 20:56
That's the first thing I checked. Hide extensions for known file types is unchecked. – jerhinesmith Feb 23 '10 at 21:04
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OK, so following the link that Bobby posted, I found the solution. I had originally changed the default folder that the Windows Explorer taskbar icon opened to. So, instead of opening to:

%windir%\explorer.exe

I modified it to open directly into my C Drive:

%windir%\explorer.exe /n, /e, /select, C:\

After noticing that the folders were correctly named if I opened Computer from the start menu and navigated to the same directories, I changed the shortcut back to the original string and that seems to have fixed the problem.

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