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How to make MS Paint (Windows XP) to use lower case file extensions when saving files? I mean setting the default behaviour when I don't enter the extension explicitly.
Dawid Ohia
Posted 2010-02-06T12:23:43.877
Reputation: 494
Lower case file extension in MS Paint
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The default extensions used in the standard Open/Save dialogs are controlled by each application.
In this case, unfortunately, they are hard-coded inside the MS Paint executable. There's no way to change them, except from hex-editing mspaint.exe (not for the faint of heart).
I would suggest using a file renaming utility to change the letter case of the extensions.
efotinis
Posted 2010-02-06T12:23:43.877
Reputation: 3 524
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On Windows Vista they all default to lower-case. I'm guessing you want this because you are going to use the files on the web or on a Linux box? If not, windows is case insensitive so it doesn't make a real difference apart from aesthetics.
Note, don't do these unless you really know what your doing
Try searching your registry for 'BMP' and/or 'paint' is it could be a registry setting.
If it isn't, then it would be set in the mspaint exe or associated DLL and would require a Hex-editor to change it.
Dan McGrath
Posted 2010-02-06T12:23:43.877
Reputation: 2 946
"I'm guessing you want this because you are going to use the files on the web " Yes, that is my goal. So as I see, the only way to do it is by making change to paint executable. – Dawid Ohia – 2010-02-07T09:27:20.193
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. Right click on the said file . click on rename . rename the extension .JPG to .jpg . refresh the page and yiu should have a lower extension
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. Open document in paint . Save as name.jpg in the filename box . refresh page and you are done
ushawu
Posted 2010-02-06T12:23:43.877
Reputation: 1
try to see questions of how to change default format in paint and apply it to your problem (perhaps creating a shortcut to mspaint with a blank image as parameter, that has lowercase file extension, can solve it). – kokbira – 2011-05-18T11:51:13.950