Your computer may not be set to show file extensions. I am using windows 8, so it might look a bit different on another windows version. If you can find the folder options in your control panel you can disable the hide file extensions setting. The red arrow in the image shows where to click.
After that you can see all the file extensions, and if you slowly click a text file twice you can change the extension from .txt to .conf
http://s29.postimg.org/y493kqz3b/ext.pngI have followed all your steps with little success. I have windows 8.
1. I have downloaded the wallet.
2. I started the wallet and then closed it.
3. I then went to to the MAXCOIN folder in the roaming forlder.
4. How do u create the maxcoin.conf file? I right cliked on empty space and and from the options , choose New--> Text document. Is that the right way. In the text document that opens up, I have copy pasted all the nodes exactly as you gave. Do I have to change the password field to something else or do i leave it as ' rpcpassword=supersecurepassword ' as in your post.
5. When I rename the text document as maxcoin.conf i dont get the option of all files. I have tried to open the notepad separately and copy the nodes in that and then did this--> file--> save as--> maxcoin.conf under all files. but when I save it it defaults to .txt extention. How do I solve this problem. My path is this C:\Users\..........\Desktop\wallet-windows\Maxcoin.conf.txt . even if i delete the .txt, it doesnt change. let me know where I am going wrong and help this to get syncing.
I keep getting the message that maxcoin has encountered a problem and has to be stopped. this happens since I introduced the maxcoin.conf file into the maxcoin folder. The maxcoin.conf remains in .txt extention and I am unable to delete the .txt option. please help.
I have changed the folder options to show the file extentions.
Many thanks for help in advance.