1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Selct the Control Panel Home

4. Click System and Maintenance
5. Under the Administrative Tools section at the bottom, click Defragment your hard drive
6. You may need to grant permission to open the Disk Defragmenter
7. Click or unclick Run automatically (recommended) depending if you want this feature enabled or disabled.
8. Click […]

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1. Open a folder or open explorer

2. Click the Layout button (to the left of the Views button) as shown in the picture below
3. Click Folder Options
4. Click the View tab
5. Uncheck Hide extensions for known file types
6. Click OK

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