Proper-case filenames in Windows Explorer (ME)

[billyman]

In Win98 SE there was an option under Folder Options that would give me the option to disallow all CAPS (make all filenames proper-case). Does anyone know if this option is available in Win ME and if so, where can I find it? Thank you.

billyman

[GaryGnu]

Did you ever find out the solution to this problem? I just copied thousands of files to my new Windows Me computer and they are in ALL CAPS. This is so annoying!

[Tuttle]

Run regedit, then browse in the left pane to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced. If there's a value called DontPrettyPath in the right pane then double-click on it and set it to 0. If not, right-click in the right pane and create a new DWORD Value. Call it DontPrettyPath and set it to 0.

[billyman]

No, I never found a solution to this. Also, I tried your solution Tuttle and the "Dontprettypath" was there & it was already valued at "0".

Thx anyways...

[Tuttle]

Try getting the latest version of TweakUI (http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakUI.asp) and using that. I don't know if it shows up in ME, but in 98 there's an option in the TweakUI Explorer tab to adjust the case of some filenames, and it's changing a different registry setting to the one I described.

[GaryGnu]

I checked Tweak UI and the option is not there. I've done some research on this and there is no solution to this problem other than to run a case switching program. I found one called Change Case and it works fairly well, but all my mixed case files are now lower case.