WP Descriptive Name Explorer

Welcome

Welcome to the home of WP Descriptive Name Explorer (WPDName). WPDName is for WordPerfect (WP) users who miss the old WordPerfect 6.x capability of viewing file Descriptive Names in the File|Open... dialog box of WP. WPDName displays the WP Descriptive Name property of files using a convenient Explorer-like interface. Users may browse through WP files and view file Descriptive Names along-side selected Windows file properties like:

  • file name,
  • full file path (including directory/folder location),
  • file size,
  • file type,
  • file attributes,
  • DOS file name, and
  • date and time information.

I now primarily use WPDName to explore WP files that were named using the old DOS 8.3 naming convention. As of 08 April 2009, the latest version of WPDName is 1.1.1.4.

At present, WPDName does not support OASIS Open Document Format (ODF) or Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML) formats as implemented by Corel.

WPDName is copyrighted. However, it may be used free of charge for personal or commercial purposes. Please feel free to contact me with bug reports, questions, comments, or suggestions.

 

System Requirements

WPDName has been tested on Windows XP and on 32-bit Vista. One user tells me WPDName runs fine on Win98 SE.

If you get a "missing oleacc.dll" errors on older systems, you may need to install the Microsoft Active Accessibility Redistributable (MAAR). Version 2.0 of MAAR and higher support Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 and newer versions of Windows. Download MAAR version 2.0 here.

On Windows 98 the oleacc.dll DLL is part of the Accessibility option. If this Windows feature is not already installed, it can be selected in the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel (Windows Setup).

 

Download and Install

Click the Download button to the right to download the WPDName install file to your computer. This file (WPDName 1.1.1.4 Setup.exe) is about 1.6 megabytes.

 

Portable Version

Many companies restrict or outright prohibit installation of third-party programs. (Not necessarily a bad idea). However, the process of obtaining approval to install such a program may not be something you wish to initiate. WPDName does not use the registry or place any dll's on your system. Nevertheless, I had assure that the ini file (used for preference settings) would not be written to your hard drive. So, I created a zipped version of WPDName that you may unzip to a folder on a USB stick and run from there.