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I'd say the better solution is to restrict the feature to only cmd.exe and batch scripts. I am willing to bet that anyone who needs to use it outside of those t
by Asooka 5y ago
I'd say the better solution is to restrict the feature to only cmd.exe and batch scripts. I am willing to bet that anyone who needs to use it outside of those two cases is running Windows on hardware that doesn't permit software updates and is probably not running anything newer than Windows XP (or even 95).
If anybody knows of anyone using those special files in programs running on modern Windows, I'd love to hear about it.
- skissane 5y agoI reckon somewhere out there, is some obscure program used to control some piece of scientific or industrial equipment, and it talks to that equipment over COM1, and it is just opening "COM1" as opposed to "COM1:" or "\\.\COM1", and it still runs on Windows 10. Rare scenario, few people are going to be impacted by it, but probably somewhere out there is someone who will be. And making it a registry key or EXE manifest option helps to not break that rare software. And I wouldn't assume that systems connected to laboratory or industrial equipment don't get Windows updates; some don't, some do.