Hide file extension for "Contact" file type in Windows Vista

Summary

When you open the Windows Contacts folder from Windows Mail, or by typing shell:contacts in Start Orb, the list of Contacts show up with the trailing file extension. This article describes how to hide the file extension for Contact file type in Windows Vista.

Hide/Show file extension for Contacts

To hide the trailing extension for Contact files, download contacts_hideext.reg from the Attachments section of this page and save the file to Desktop. Right-click on the file and choose Merge. Click Yes to confirm.

To undo the action (to show file extension), you may use the contacts_showext.reg file available from the Attachments section of this article.