Jim I totally agree. During all this, I just kept saying to myself, "No one noticed this?" and "Microsoft thinks this is acceptable?"

I don't guess I've noticed it because when I rename files I usually do it like this: file.txt.old, and for some reason the dir and del works properly with it formatted that way. Regardless, it is a frying pan full of grease... way to easy to make mistakes with it the way it is right now.
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