User friendly file name
There was an interesting discussion not long ago. People complain file names are just too user un-unfriendly. What is WISPTIS.exe? It is “Microsoft Tablet PC Platform Component”. How could you tell from its name?
Valid complain.
Other people have rebuttal. File name is never meant to user friendly. If it is, what does it mean to international users? Do you want to localize the file name?
Other people have suggestion. You can store version information on binaries today. We should take advantage of that.
This is what I see on my machine. You will have WISPTIS.exe if you installed Microsoft Journal Viewer.
C:\>filever -v C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\wisptis.exe
--a-- W32i APP ENU 1.0.2201.0 shp 194,560 08-29-2002 wisptis.exe
Language 0x0409 (English (United States))
CharSet 0x04b0 Unicode
OleSelfRegister Enabled
CompanyName Microsoft Corporation
FileDescription Microsoft Tablet PC Platform Component
InternalName WISPTIS.EXE
OriginalFilenam WISPTIS.EXE
ProductName Microsoft? Windows? Operating System
ProductVersion 1.0.2201.0
FileVersion 1.0.2201.0 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
LegalCopyright Copyright ? 1998-2002 Microsoft Corporation.
VS_FIXEDFILEINFO:
Signature: feef04bd
Struc Ver: 00010000
FileVer: 00010000:08990000 (1.0:2201.0)
ProdVer: 00010000:08990000 (1.0:2201.0)
FlagMask: 0000003f
Flags: 00000000
OS: 00040004 NT Win32
FileType: 00000001 App
SubType: 00000000
FileDate: 00000000:00000000
Anyway, just for fun.