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Displaying bytes instead of KB possible in XP?

hamster · 2007-03-10 19:57:00

Just curious has anyone come across a way of display a file size in bytes instead of rounding up to KBs in file explorer in detail view? Many a time you have a 1KB file which is actually 253 bytes for example. :( Has anyone seen a hack or registry change that does this? I had a look at windows Annoyances and I didn't come…

10-03-2007 7:57pm

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Just curious has anyone come across a way of display a file size in bytes instead of rounding up to KBs in file explorer in detail view? Many a time you have a 1KB file which is actually 253 bytes for example.

Has anyone seen a hack or registry change that does this? I had a look at windows Annoyances and I didn't come across it.

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#2 11-03-2007 9:29pm

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:mad: yeah it's anoying isn't it - nearly as bad as not showing the free space on a removable drive ( I mean - you probably know how much free space you have on the hard drive, but not on removable media /RANT )

dir in dos shows the number of bytes

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