Some cool Microsoft Magic !!

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Might be a repetition ... for those who dont know... :)

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.

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...............................
 
that "con" thing, it is difficult to digest when you say whole microsoft team couldn't answer it.

anyone from DOS days would know why.
 
pretty old tricks and these are not magic but easter eggs

Fact for Easter Egg 1

Folders with name: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5,

COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, & LPT9

cant be created using Windows Explorer or Command Prompt directly!

This is prevented as XP terms these folders as SYSTEM Folder Names reserved only

for the Operating System.. But there is a backdoor..(this trick is to create

system folders on XP through command prompt )

And dude con named folder can be created try this:p

Try this:

CREATION

Syntax:md \\.\\$path

Example:prompt>md \\.\\C:\con

Explanation: This would create a folder named "con" on your "C Drive"

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Fact for Easter Egg 2

The reason this happens:

1) You are saving to 8-bit Extended ASCII (Look at the Save As / Encoding format)

2) You are reading as 16-bit UNICODE (You guessed it, look at the Save As / Encoding format)

This is why the 18 8-bit characters are being displayed as 9 (obviously not supported by your codepage) 16-bit UNICODE characters.

It's not magic, it's someone pretending to be a hacker by preying on the ignorance of others.



Fact For Easter Egg 3


he rand function

The Microsoft Knowledge Base article "How to Insert Sample Text into a Document in Word [212251]" explains the use and syntax of the function:

Microsoft Word allows you to quickly insert sample text into a document. To do this, type =rand() in the document where you want the text to appear, and then press ENTER.

The inserted text is that hardy perennial: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," which contains every letter in the English alphabet.

By default, the sample text contains three paragraphs, each containing five sentences. You can control how many paragraphs and sentences appear by adding numbers inside the parentheses, for instance:

=rand(3,4)

The first number is the number of paragraphs, and the second the number of sentences per paragraph. If you omit the second number, you get five sentences in each paragraph. So, for example:

=rand(3,4)

inserts three, four-sentence paragraphs, while:

=rand(10)

inserts ten, five-sentence paragraphs.

The maximum number for either parameter is 200 and may be lower depending on the number of paragraphs and sentences specified. For instance, if you specify 200 paragraphs, then the maximum number of sentences per paragraph you can specify is 99:

=rand(200, 99)

If you specify 200 sentences per paragraph, then the maximum number of paragraphs you can specify is 99.

Admittedly, this function serves a useful purpose for filling a page when you're designing a template and want to see how it will look with text in it. It's also easy to see how users can be alarmed and fear this is a virus when someone suggests they try "=rand(200,99)," which quickly blows up into a giant document! (Incidentally, part of the instructions in some versions is to "Make sure there is a space between = and rand and a space between rand and (200,99)." This actually makes no difference: the function works equally well with and without spaces.)
 
idea said:
Might be a repetition ... for those who dont know... :)

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..

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...............................

H@cKer said:
pretty old tricks and these are not magic but easter eggs

As mentioned ... Might be a repetition ... for those who dont know... Ester Egg ..magic .. pointing @ samething with different terminologies .. :)

Thanks for input though ....
 
Originally, in DOS, CON was a reserved name for the console device. For example you did the command "copy con filename" to copy whatever you type into the console to be copied into a file named "filename" . Similarly, COM1, COM2, LPT1, PRN etc. were special devices pointing to serial ports, parallel ports and printers.

I guess it has been carried on into windows as reserved folder names.
 
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