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From the article: > Drives with a drive-letter other than A-Z do not appear in File Explorer, and cannot be navigated to in File Explorer. Reminds me of the o
by vunderba 11mo ago
From the article:
> Drives with a drive-letter other than A-Z do not appear in File Explorer, and cannot be navigated to in File Explorer.
Reminds me of the old-school ALT + 255 trick on Win9x machines where adding this "illegal trailing character" made the directory inaccessible from the regular file explorer.
- Telemakhos 11mo agoShhh… that’s how we hid the Duke Nukem installs on the boxen in the dorm computer lab.
- Someone1234 11mo agoUp until recently, you could do the same thing in the Windows Registry to make it so normal Windows tools (e.g. Regedit) couldn't view/modify certain entries. I believe it was still an issue in the last five~ years.
- mavhc 11mo agoIt's even worse now https://borncity.com/win/2023/03/11/windows-10-11-mock-folders-as-uac-bypass-security-disaster-leverage-applocker-and-srp/ https://borncity.com/win/2023/03/11/windows-10-11-mock-folde...