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Enable Windows 7 Auto Complete File Name In Save As Dialog Box

Copyright © Walker 08 Nov 2009 01:26
Auto-complete and auto-suggest file name feature in Windows 7 Save As dialog box.The Windows 7 auto-append and auto-suggest file name in the Save As dialog box is a nice feature to know. You will appreciate it if you’ve to save number of files in a folder with its name in a serial pattern (e.g. rpt1.log, rpt2.log, etc).
By default installation, both auto-complete file name and auto-suggest file name features are enabled in Windows 7. However, these features might be turned off by some other applications for some reasons.

Well, no matter what reasons are behind, I kinda unhappy with this as I have to manually type the full file name in Save As dialog box instead of only changing the number series.

How to enable auto-complete / auto-suggest file name feature of Windows 7?

This trick makes change to the Windows Registry. If you’re not comfortable to edit Windows Registry manually, don’t bother to try. If you believe me, download and run the .reg file (Registration Entries; Registry file) to get the job done.

1) Click Windows 7 Start button, type regedit, and click the regedit.exe shortcut appears atop of Start menu.

2) Locate this Registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer > AutoComplete

3) On the right-pane, double click the AutoSuggest and change it from “no” to “yes”. Similarly for the Append Completion value.
  • Append Completion set to “yes” will automatically append or complete the file name as you type, if so happen the folder has a file that match your initial file name.
     
  • AutoSuggest set to “yes” will automatically suggest a list of files in the folder that match the initial file name as you type it in Save As Dialog box.

Registry key to enable Auto-complete and auto-suggest file name feature in Windows 7.



Download AutoComplete.reg (please verify MD5 Checksum before run it).
[ MD5 Checksum: 0d14f2e009e726546f3e5fd0aca6ca37 ]


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  1. JT December 30th, 2009 3:37 AM

    Thank you so much! I couldn’t figure out why AutoComplete was always turning itself off on my machines (I had also forgotten it’s called AutoComplete :P). Thanks for giving me a way to get it back!