Windows – How to avoid typing “cd ” to open folder in Totalcmd

After customizing a single folder to your liking simply do this: Windows Explorer => Organize => Folder and search options (alternatively Tools => Folder options) => View Tab => Under the Folder views click "Apply to Folder" button.

Assuming you do that for pictures, it will use this customization for all other folders that uses folder type of pictures. You can do the same for document, video, music folders as well.

I have found a solution on a Microsoft thread titled Truncated Folder Names ("Extension" Missing)

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/truncated-folder-names-extension-missing/596fb09b-c41d-42e8-9d14-95a02352d554

A user named Lee Diggins had this exact issue and fixed it using a Windows repair tool titled Automatically diagnose and repair Windows file and folder problems which can be found here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17590/automatically-diagnose-and-repair-windows-file-and-folder-problems

This repair tool fixed the problem for me.

When using the repair tool, this exact issue is not listed, but –as Lee Diggins also mentioned in the thread– just check the box for each option to fix all file and folder problems. I did this and after a restart, all my directories are back to normal.

This fix should work for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.

Thanks to those who pointed out I was incorrectly referring to "folder names" as "filenames" because this alone helped me research the problem better (and thus discover that Microsoft thread).