Posted October 4, 200816 yr Hi all, Just recently I have noticed that when viewing file properties for .sys files the 'details' tab contains very little information, as can be seen here with tcpip.sys: http://www.mikeyjames.com/psys.jpg It seems about 50/50 whether details from a .sys file will be interpreted properly by Vista. This was confirmed by using System Information: http://www.mikeyjames.com/sysinf.jpg I then noticed that a third party app (SiSoft Sandra) was able to read the info without any problems: http://www.mikeyjames.com/psandra.jpg I thought I'd try and see what effect changing the file extension had & changed it to tcpip.dll. This resulted in all the info being displayed: http://www.mikeyjames.com/pdll.jpg This also worked when I renamed to tcpip.exe. The problem happens on my laptop with Vista Business and Desktop with Vista Ultimate. I've tried running ShellExView and disabling any 3rd party extensions to no avail. Any ideas about what is going on here? Any ideas as to how I can get Vista to display the properties of system files properly? Thanks in advance Mick
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