Microsoft Magic

[Doin]

MAGIC #1

An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as "CON". This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable. ... At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer why this happened!

TRY IT NOW, IT WILL NOT CREATE " CON " FOLDER


MAGIC #2

For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.

Is it just a really weird bug? :-??


MAGIC #3

Microsoft crazy facts

This is something pretty cool and neat...and unbelievable. .. At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened!

It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out yourself...

Open Microsoft Word and type

=rand (200, 99)

And then press ENTER
Then see the magic.......

[sorrowman]

WTF.....this is a bit strange

[Luís]

Awesome(ly wierd).

Great find!

[Speed Damage]

CON is a reserved file/folder name under windows. PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9 are as well.

If you change the rand parameters, it changes the output of the text, but only spacing and number of times that excerpt is repeated.

As for the bush one, looks like microsoft wanted to have a little fun...

[sjmike]

CON is a reserved file/folder name under windows. PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9 are as well.

If you change the rand parameters, it changes the output of the text, but only spacing and number of times that excerpt is repeated.

As for the bush one, looks like microsoft wanted to have a little fun...

if you really wanted to create these folder names you can, there is a trick to it, but its a pain to remove. MS wrote up instructions on how to remove them since its not as easy as just pressing the delete key : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/120716


There are a lot of secret tricks within windows. Some of them are what they call Easter eggs. You can check out some of them here: http://www.eeggs.com/tree/5935.html

[Bob Garage]

For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.

Is it just a really weird bug? :-??

Whats supposed to happen with that one?

I'm running vista and it did absolutly nothing!

[sorrowman]

The CON magic also works when you try to create folders with the names PRN and NUL. Apparently these names are 'reserved' as they apparently point to default system devices, and from what I've been able to gather it's been that way since the days of DOS

[damage jackal]

For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.

Is it just a really weird bug? :-??

Whats supposed to happen with that one?

I'm running vista and it did absolutly nothing!

http://www.eeggs.com/items/48183.html
see the pics

[MetDream]

Thanks for the amusement while I am sitting here bored to death at the counter at my work...

[Judge B]

Bush thing doesn't work on Vista. I just tried.