3 weird facts about Microsoft Windows

By Alex on May 30th, 2008 in Software
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Here are 3 weird facts about Windows, that nobody can explain :

3 weird Windows Facts

1. Nobody can create a folder named “Con”.

Try to create anywhere on your hard disk a folder called “Con” (without the quotes). Go to a location on your hard disk, right click, choose “New” and then select “Folder” from the menu that appears. Name the folder “Con” (without quotes) and hit Enter. You’ll see that the folder won’t be named “Con“. It will be “New folder”

2. A text file made with Notepad, with the following content : “Bush hid the facts” (without quotes) won’t display the actual text.

Go to Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Notepad . Write in Notepad the following text : “Bush hid the facts” (without quotes) then Save the file and exit Notepad. Now go to the text file you created and open it. You’ll see that the text you just wrote and save won’t show.

3. Write in Word this : “=rand(200,99)” (without the quotes) and witness the magic.

Open Microsoft Word and on the first line write : “=rand(200,99)” (without the quotes) and hit Enter. Magic in the making.

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Ray
1) No folder can be called con (or several other things) because it refers to hardware devices.
2) This is caused by a bug in notepad (not in vista’s version), as it doesn’t handle unicode correctly.
3) That is a feature of word, to instantly test fonts, styles, and layouts. (If that’s the lorem ipsum trick).
http://csswizardry.com Harry Roberts
Wow, they are interesting! Especially the first two.
http://lablogueria.blogspot.com La Blogueria
Amazing. I wish I knew… any theories?
Regards.
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#2 works for “Walter hid the facts” too. What’s going on there?
http://www.mitchelmoriarty.com Mitchel Moriarty
1: This goes back to the days of DOS. CON is the name of a port on your computer and thus the name is reserved for devices. This is the same reason you can’t create folders called LPT1 (Printer port). Since all versions of windows were built on top of DOS, the reserved names have stuck
2: This is apparently a bug in Notepad where it can’t tell the difference between ASCII and Unicode in certain word patterns (such as 4-3-3-5 lettered words). If you have some of the Asian language packs installed, the boxes show up as characters. Try it with “Bill can not dance” and “This app can break”
3: This is actually a feature in word which allows you to quickly insert dummy text into word documents. it also works if you replace rand with lorem. The numbers can also be changed. =lorem(2,6) for example, will give you two, six line long paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum
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I found this interesting, i have used windows for years, and didn’t know these, very weird facts!
http://lablogueria.blogspot.com La Blogueria
Mr. Moriarty, thanks so much, now it does not seem soo dark… it is funny I cannot save a notepad doc saying that Bill can not dance! Funny bug…
Regards.
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That’s funny
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Avdesh
wonderfull facts
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branks
nice it worked
Chandra
It was really funny and interesting..
ankit jindal
i know abt the bush hid the facts……. juz type any word in 4-3-3-5 type in notepad….likewise bbbb ccc vvv yyyyy n u will get the same
Mugabi Michael
Thats really interesting though some one got to explain WHY!!!
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really very interesting facts
Joanne
omg omg dat is cool wel impressed x
ravi sharma
there must be any reason behind these facts… plzz if anybody konws then tell me
http://chintan-waghmare.blogspot.com/ Chintan
The reason for windows not allowing to create con folder is perfect, but windows can be tricked to create a con folder
1) create a new folder
2)(rename folder) press “ALT + 255″ and then type con
and done you have created a folder by name con
Though its a sort of illusion , a folder is created but not by the name con…
but it appears to the user as con
Regards,
Chintan
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ravi
thnx chntan, it really works yar
sidh
I tried “ALT + 255″ and then CON it doesn’t worked for me….Please tell me if any other way…
Naveen Kumar
Hey sidh it actually works but the only thing u have to remember is that u have to press the numbers which are under numlock not the numbers which are present below f1,f2,f3…
Laks
the notepad thing doesnt works in windows 7 guys!

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