I got this as an email, and I hope I can paste it here, its pretty neat and kinda fun
I mean how well can a computer be programmed? Besides the bugs and viruses, there are some cool flaws specially in Windows.
here are a few tricks :
MAGIC #1
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as āCONā. This is something pretty coolā¦and unbelievableā¦ At Microsoft the whole Team, couldnāt answer why this happened!
TRY IT NOW, IT WILL NOT CREATE " CON " FOLDER
MAGIC #2
Microsoft crazy facts
It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out yourselfā¦
Open Microsoft Word and type:
=rand (200, 99)
and then press ENTER
Haha cool stuff! snortsnort lifts glasses with index finger wipes grease off face puts acne/freckle be-gone cream on face stitches underwear with name Clean and polish star wars toy collection
These are reserved words in Microsoft Windows.
Try others like COM1 or LPT1 or LPT2 ..
File Names in Windows XP Professional
File names in Windows XP Professional can be up to 255 characters and can contain spaces, multiple periods, and special characters that are not allowed in MS-DOS file names. Windows XP Professional makes it possible for other operating systems to access files that have long names by generating an MS-DOS-readable (8.3) name for each file. These MS-DOS-readable names also enable MS-DOS-based and Windows 3.x?based applications to recognize and load files that have long file names. When a program saves a file on a computer running Windows XP Professional, both the 8.3 file name and long file name are retained.
Note
The 8.3 format means that files can have between 1 and 8 characters in the file name. The name must start with a letter or a number and can contain any characters except the following:
. " / \ ] : ; | = , * ? (space)
An 8.3 file name typically has a file name extension that is from one to three characters long and has the same character restrictions. A period separates the file name from the file name extension.
Several special file names are reserved by the system and cannot be used for files or folders:
āconā is a reserved word from the old DOS days, simply meaning āconsoleā. If you wanted to create a new text file in DOS you could type ācopy con newfile.txtā meaning copy from the console to newfile.txt. This would let you type some lines and when you ended the file with ^Z (DOSish for āend of fileā) you would have a file called newfile.txt containing whatever you wrote in the console. This is indeed still possible in the Windows XP console, and can you see what mess it would cause if you let files or folders have the name āconā? What would ācopy con newfile.txtā then mean?
.