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How do you make Windows 7 fully case-sensitive with respect to the filesystem?
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I want to make Windows 7 case-sensitive when it reads/writes anything on the hard drive (the C drive, or any other NTFS drive). I found a video via google that says to change the registry key to a value of 1 (source). I also found a Windows support item that says something about modifying the regis…
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\DontPrettyPath
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You can set the registry value to as other authors suggested. Create a file named with the following content and run it. Then use Cygwin to work with case-sensitive filenames. In order to do so, you need to mount NTFS filesystems with option in your…
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