BRF is in fact supposed to be a "Braille Ready File".

Essentially it is plain formatted text.

George Bell.

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Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Turning off Windows XP Filename
"Help"

I'm a little confused here, sorry. Just what exactly do you
want to know? From what I understand, a .brf is a Blazie
note taker file. You say she went to the file name box, then
tabbed to see what folder her file was going into. When a
save dialog box comes up, the file to be saved will be
highlighted in the file name box. If you click on a file in
the folder then the file name will change to that file name.
So if she was saving file.txt and that file name was
highlighted in the file name box but then she tabbed or
clicked on another file then that file name - say file.brf -
will appear in the file name box. Now, if she didn't
accidentally do this then the file she selected for download
would have to have been a .brf file. There is no option to
stop the highlighted file from changing. All you need do is
once you select a file for download, click once in the
filename box. This will set the name of the file to the one
selected for download.

I hope this is what you meant.

Ray Campbell wrote:

>Hello:
>
>I received a call this morning from someone who is using
Windows XP and 
>Window-Eyes.  She tried downloading something from
Wikipedia.  When she 
>got to the file name box where she could choose to accept
or change the 
>downloaded file name, then tabbed to see what folder her
file would be 
>going in too, she tabbed back to the file name box and
noticed that XP 
>had put a file extension of .brf on the file name, even
though this was 
>supposed to be a text file.  She had to re-name the file
something else 
>to get it to stop doing that as she has a file with the
same name and 
>the .brf extension already on her computer.
>
>Is this some kind of a Windows XP option and if so, where
can one go to 
>turn it off?  She said this happens only in Internet
Explorer.  I went 
>through Internet Options and couldn't find any option that
looked like 
>it did something like this.  I also looked through File and
Folder 
>options and didn't find anything obvious.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help,
>
>
>Ray Campbell, HelpDesk Technician
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