Funny bugs in M$ Windows

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pretty neat bugs in windows, I’ve just tried them and sure as shit…

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/microsoft-magic.shtml

Summary:
Message outlines three seemingly strange procedures in Microsoft Windows operating systems and claims that not even Microsoft knows why these procedures work as they do (Full commentary below).

Status:
The procedures are real, but the reasons they occur are well documented.

Example:(Submitted, October 2007) Subject: Microsoft Magic

 <b>MAGIC #1</b>

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

 <b>MAGIC #2</b>
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? At Microsoft they say they don't know why this happens.

 <b>MAGIC #3</b>
Microsoft's 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…….
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the CON works for any reserved name…try naming a folder LPT1 or COM2, no dice.

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#2 doesn’t work in vista - or at least it didn’t a month or so ago

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weird.

5

I like the Bush one. Crazy.

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  1. It’s a reserved name from the days of old.

Start
Run
“mkdir \.\C:\CON”
“Ok”
Hey look there it is.

  1. Odd bug, but other strings along that pattern can do it.

  2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212251

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#2 was BS

#1 was already explained.

#3, Microsoft knows exactly why it happened.
http://www.guy-sports.com/humor/urban_myth/urban_myth_rand.htm

EDIT: Damn you Fuzzy. I thought you’d be in Guantanamo by now.