Hidden errors slow down system performance - FACT.Hey guys, I got this in an email today and thought it was interesting, so I wanted to share it with you guys. The second one really surprised me. Do try it out yourself and see what happens. And enjoy!
Magic #1
It was 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
MAGIC #2(this one is the best out of the three)
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? Confused?
MAGIC #3
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.
Comment posted by pligg.com
at 1/9/2008 11:28:40 AMComputer Magic – Bush Hid the Facts! | Technodorm
ey guys, I got this in an email today and thought it was interesting, so I wanted to share it with you guys. The second one really surprised me. Do try it out yourself and see what happens. And enjoy!
Magic #1
It was discovered that nobody can create a…Comment posted by iCalvyn
at 12/21/2007 7:18:18 AMnice trick, excel also can do some of the magic trick
Comment posted by cabbi13
at 12/19/2007 4:20:22 PM????????? came out when I tried numder 2
Comment posted by Christo
at 12/19/2007 6:41:18 AMi can say that “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” contains every letter of the alphabet once. I wonder if thats why?
Comment posted by Will
at 12/18/2007 8:26:18 PMIt appears that the numbers used in the “rand” example have the following meanings: the first number is the number of times the sentence is repeated altogether. The second number is the number of those sentences grouped together in each un-indented paragraph. (Try it with smaller numbers and see.)
Comment posted by outlander
at 12/18/2007 3:48:16 PMActually, the folder named ‘CON’ CAN be created. A few months back, I downloaded the movie Con Air through the news reader Grabit and had the program make me a folder named ‘CON’. Granted, the movie was in great shape but i was unable to delete, rename or move this folder until i reformatted my array.
Comment posted by Boone
at 12/18/2007 7:35:21 AMRE #3: Seems the exact numbers are not important.
Comment posted by Ryan
at 12/18/2007 7:24:10 AMThese are all cool but the George Bush one doesn’t work for me. I’m running Vista so it must be an XP or older thing.
Comment posted by rampantheart
at 12/18/2007 6:11:26 AMI stumbled upon this post and i just stopped by to say this is real great!I tried it all and man,couldnt believe it!
Comment posted by Self-Righteous Linux User
at 12/18/2007 4:56:26 AMFunny… Ubuntu doesn’t seem to have these *problems*
Comment posted by Riyas
at 12/8/2007 11:35:07 AMSome nice tips so far! Good!
Comment posted by maef
at 11/28/2007 6:04:39 PM“Franz jagt im komplett verwahrlosten Taxi quer durch Bayern.” is the German equivalent to “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
A sentence which contains every letter in the alphabet.Why they chose to output the German version is beyond me though.
Comment posted by SlightlyShadySEO
at 11/27/2007 8:36:28 PMThe “con” trick is because of a popular trick from windows 95/98 where you would try and go to c:/con/con and it would crash the computer
Comment posted by pas
at 11/27/2007 5:59:37 PManother filename that is impossible to save is “AUX”.. i’ve discovered this fact.. why?
Comment posted by Peter Griffin
at 11/27/2007 4:30:20 PMYou also can’t create a folder called “AUX”
Comment posted by amrmo13
at 11/27/2007 1:44:45 PMThe Bush one didn’t work fo rme, but I’m on vista…the other two did. Neat.
Comment posted by Mandi
at 11/27/2007 12:21:31 PMI knew about the random text generator, but the Bush notepad trick was funny as hell.
Comment posted by Hevach
at 11/27/2007 12:19:30 PM#2 can be duplicated with a few strings. It’s because ASCII and Unicode both have no header or formatting information, and both are valid (but illegible) when read as the opposite format. A few short text strings cause Notepad to open a file as Unicode when it was saved as ASCII. Opening the “Bush hid the facts” file in Edit or most other text editors will work, and newer versions of Notepad can resolve it correctly.
Comment posted by Thomas Schaaf
at 11/27/2007 9:14:23 AM=rand (..,..)
Makes random text. It is the same as Lorem Ipsum.. (Google for it if you dont know what that is)
Comment posted by Brad D.
at 11/26/2007 2:40:10 PMFun Computer Magic…
Although these are not really easter eggs, they are mostly bugs they are pretty interesting. CON is a device from way back in the old dos days COPY CON FILE.DAT means copy form CONSOLE which is why you can\’t create a CON file…
I got the Vista operating system…
number one still worked. because it was a register name in a hidden place in the computer.
number two don’t work. close it and open it up… it there.
number three, i never checked it out cause i don’t have Microsoft words.
Good Luck Vista users.
i can create a folder from CON name
when i tried number 2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! came up
i dont have microsoft either
hi
friends i am also surprised from these computer magics but can you send me the reasons of it and some these type of good magics and some good proxy sites,any thing interesting in the computers.
thanks to you all in advance.
I tried number 2 as well. It probably has something to do with how notepad parse the text. Great little finds though, very interesting to try them out.
i know how to create a con folder
1.first u create a folder and rename it when u rename press “alt and hold 255 ” and after it type con the folder will be created
I was wonder with these magics of computer so can u send more like these to my email.
similarly we are not able to create any folder the naming convention as AUX
for #2 ..that’s strange cause i first wrote “Buhs hid the facts” (typo) and nothing happened, and realized, wrote it right and it disappeared.. tried different combinations like some other name than “Bush” or “hid” something else then “facts”, in short or long words, letter mix-ups, but nothing worked like that.. it’s really only this sentence that i’ve discovered so far to work like that.. please tell me if something else works and i won’t consider it strange anymore..
U can create the Folder,
OK JUST CREATE A NEWFOLDER THEN RENAME THEN PRESS ALT WITHOUT REMOVING ALT PRESS 0160
THEN REMOVE ALT KEY THEN TYPE CON HIT ENTER
when you do this the folder rename is ” con” it have a space before con.
@Ramy
I am not sure why that happens. Here is a brief explanation by one of the commenter:
“#2 can be duplicated with a few strings. It’s because ASCII and Unicode both have no header or formatting information, and both are valid (but illegible) when read as the opposite format. A few short text strings cause Notepad to open a file as Unicode when it was saved as ASCII. Opening the “Bush hid the facts” file in Edit or most other text editors will work, and newer versions of Notepad can resolve it correctly.”
it is possibal
first press alt continuose and press 0160 ,
leve alt and type con,
it is true
after you re-open the “bush hid facts” file, copy and paste onto Microsoft Word. Chinese? Japenese?
yar i m d computer master n i no how to create a con named folder…………….you just hv to create a new folder……..rename it by pressing alt key and while pressing alt key type 0160 by the numpad………….and then name it as con………………your con folder is created!!!!!!!!!!
creating CON by manpreeth’s way is infact cheating… it adds a Unicode space character before the word CON. hence the actual is ” CON”. Anyway, you can create CON in its original form in the following steps.CON Stands for Console, which is the interface with which we(or the OS) communicates with the command interpreter. it is needed in every location in windows for the smooth working…. but you can create the folder, if you try to do it directly through DOS.
1. go to start->run
2. type CMD and press enter
3.in the command prompt type “md \\.\e:\con” (without quotes).
it’s done. You can replace e:\ with any of your drives you need to create the folder.
Now Try to delete it…….
to delete you can only use the command prompt.
type”rd \\.\e:\con” to delete the folder.
There are several other folders which has the same property.
They are:
PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9
These are all internal devices.
The majics were amazing
I can make all kinds of folder, there is also secret formula
i am very intresting on these tell me
HEY MAN I GOT THESE IN MY MAIL
BUT I LOST DEM
THANKS FOR SHARING THESE
The third one is just a developer’s tool, so they can test fonts, etc. Still cool, but definitely explainable.
I CAN ANSWER THAT HOW TO CREATE A FOLDER NAMED creating CON by manpreeth’s way is infact cheating… it adds a Unicode space character before the word CON. hence the actual is ” CON”. Anyway, you can create CON in its original form in the following steps.CON Stands for Console, which is the interface with which we(or the OS) communicates with the command interpreter. it is needed in every location in windows for the smooth working…. but you can create the folder, if you try to do it directly through DOS.
1. go to start->run
2. type CMD and press enter
3.in the command prompt type “md \\.\e:\con” (without quotes).
it’s done. You can replace e:\ with any of your drives you need to create the folder.
Now Try to delete it…….
to delete you can only use the command prompt.
type”rd \\.\e:\con” to delete the folder.
There are several other folders which has the same property.
They are:
PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9
These are all internal devices.
It is very pleasent that its just different
hi frndzz
even we can’t create folder name
com1,com2,aux etc. bcoz these are like keywords in c lang. like if,if else
ther are reserved words by c
similarly these words com1,con,com2 are reserved by window
i have tried the “bush” thing and it really works. but when i tried a single space before “bush hid the facts” and saved it, then open it, bush is not hiding anything
) the context is still the same.
Anything with Bush hid and facts will work for number two.
Hey…….for the 3rd one the exact numbers aren’t needed…I guess the third one must be some rogue function called ‘random’ that works like this : =random(x,y) -> there will be X number of distinct series and Y number of repeats……. try =Random(1,1) .and =Random(1,2) and u’ll get it…….provided u r either zonked or having way too much free time!!
For some reason the bush one works with any 4 letter word, then three letter word, then three letter word then a 5 letter word try
This app can brake
The Man
magic 1 ans= we donot creat con folder bcos in microsoft world all programs folders are registerd by con name.con is like a father of all programs.so we can never use the father name for his son. under stand.
magic 2 ans= it happened becouse it is a logic of odd numbers use in sentence. like in bush use 4 letters in hid use 3,the use 3, facts use 5.i mean to say if we write any sentense using in first word 2 or four than using 3letter & 3 letter than use five letter & five letter than use 7 letter & 7 letter. it convert into code by doing same process.when we use odd no letters in pair we found code.pls try it.if u not understand than join me on mu e mail.
your 2nd point, i am not understand.
Hey really reading such magic of computer stimulatethe mind to search for more magic like this
i need more of this
they are the guys who will take our earth to any safe place in universe
All the magics above mentioned and replies are very useful.. Keep discovering wonders like these further.
All thoughts are right & very wonderful in computer field.
Is your computer “male” or “female”??
1. Open Notepad
2. Type the following line in notepad:
CreateObject (“SAPI.SpVoice”).Speak”I love you”
3. Save file as- “computer_gender.vbs”
4. Run the file …
If you hear a male voice, you have a boy….
If you hear a female voice, you have a female………
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I can create ‘CON’ name’s folder.