vbs file search for extention in a directory - file

I'm trying to write this code in VBs, (I'm quite new)
I want to have the code go through a folder/directory, and pick out all ".txt" files, in something like a for loop. These text files could then be listed using MsgBox ("txt filename"). This is what I've got so far:
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objStartFolder = "C:\Users\Desktop\folder"
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(objStartFolder)
Set colFiles = objFolder.Files
For Each objFile in colFiles
If UCase(objFSO.GetExtensionName(objFile.name)) = ".txt" Then
Wscript.Echo objFile.Name
Next
It doesn't seem to be picking out a txt file called "name.txt". Any help would be greatly appreciated.
ps:
please ignore and bad spelling and my terrible formatting (im new to stackoverflow) Thanks! (also the code above is mostly mashed together code i found off the internet)

You should modify this line ; if you use UCase :
If UCase(objFSO.GetExtensionName(objFile.name)) = ".txt"
To
If UCase(objFSO.GetExtensionName(objFile)) = "TXT"
Or if you use LCase
If LCase(objFSO.GetExtensionName(objFile)) = "txt"
And your code looks like this one :
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objStartFolder = "C:\Users\Desktop\folder"
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(objStartFolder)
Set colFiles = objFolder.Files
For Each objFile in colFiles
If LCase(objFSO.GetExtensionName(objFile)) = "txt" Then
Wscript.Echo objFile.Name
End If
Next
GetExtensionName Method

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