Computer Magic, Unbelievable!!Weird stuff in Windows
Weird stuff in Windows:
Magic #1
It was 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 (this one is the best out of the three)
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? Confused?
MAGIC #3
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.
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#2’s description is very misleading. It’s not related to the typed text. Any pattern of words comprised of 4 letters, three letters, three letters and five letters will cause the same behavior.
the third one is a test…or a glitched test…that sentence that forms contains every letter of the alphabet, so possibly it was testing word’s letter recognition and configuration and was built into the programming.
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Item 1: This comes from the days of console DOS; “CON” stands for console, and is one of the DOS reserved devices. Similarly, you cannot create folders with other DOS reserved device names, such as:
Printers: LPT0 through LPT9 and PRN
Modems: COM0 through COM9
Null device: NUL
Console: CON
One of the various uses for the CON device is when you want to quickly create a text file at a prompt:
copy con MyFile.txt
this opens MyFile.txt for writing (copies input from the “console”), and you simply start typing. When you are done, you press Ctrl-Z (many of these commands go back to morse code days) and the file is created.
Item 2: Ok, that’s seriously creepy–especially with Microsoft’s commitment to secure computing (meaning: no more easter eggs). Using the “copy con” command from above (file on desktop) results in a slightly different outcome, which is now repeating inside Notepad (the first time the text was simply translated to Unicode). Creating a file with that text in another program seems to indicate that it’s notepad itself doing it…(because it displays ok)…but with CON affected it’s more likely a DLL shared by both Notepad and the console…and that takes us closer to the kernel. I’ve been poking at this with various utilities for a little while, and all I can say is that something like this is bad news. I verify this on Windows 2003 SERVER (!!!) R2 SP2. SP3 is due out, so best recheck.
Item 3: This is unfortunately intentional.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212251
I’m still shocked by #2…and trust me…if I know enough to easily answer #1…that’s significant.
#three works with just about any combination; the two numbers seem to multiply each other to determine how many times it says the thing… (i wont say it, dont want to ruin it…)
Acutally, you can try =rand(150,100) or other similar numbers and get a similar result. The text looks the same, but the number of pages varies from 145 to 545 (just from what I saw)
the last one is to check if all letters in the alphabet work
the last one was intentionally put in there to test something…i forgot what
Why is this amazing?!?!?!?!?!?!
1 and 2 work for me and are pretty cool. But number 2 doesn’t do anything it seems, what should I be seeing?
There’s actually a simple explanation for #1. “con” (short for console) is a DOS reserved word that corresponds to the text input/output stream. At a Command Prompt, if you type the command “copy con test.txt” and hit Enter, you’ll then be able to type a bunch of stuff on the screen until you finally hit the Ctrl-Z (end of file) key. Everything you typed will then be written to the file called “test.txt” (or whatever filename you gave it).
This also works in reverse. The command “copy test.txt con” will write the contents of test.txt to the screen, much in the same way that the command “type test.txt” works… except that you’ll also get the “1 file(s) copied” confirmation at the end.
This is why the folder name “con” is disallowed by the operating system… because you wouldn’t be able to copy any files into it from the command line!
I’d be rather surprised if nobody at Microsoft could answer that.
For #2, the same thing happens if you type in “abcdefgh jklmn pqr” instead of “Bush hid the facts”… but that’s not as interesting. For some reason, the file is being interpreted by Notepad as being in the Unicode encoding, rather than standard text.
#3 appears to be your standard software “easter egg”. Some Word developer decided to hide that little trick in the software. Happens all the time.
number 2 did nothing what did i miss
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