Some Magical and weired bug in Microsoft Windows

Posted on June 10, 2008 
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Today, I got a interesting email from one of my friend. And, There were few magical bug about Microsoft windows and Microsoft word in that email. I tried it and found that these are really interesting bug and don’t know what is this and why these bugs haven’t been solved by Microsoft.

MAGICAL BUG #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…and unbelievable… Microsoft the whole Team, couldn’t answer, why this happened!

TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE FOLDER NAMED ” CON ” IN MICROSOFT WINDOWS

MAGICAL BUG #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? :-??

MAGICAL BUG #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.. And see the magic..

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20 Responses to “Some Magical and weired bug in Microsoft Windows”

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  2. sham on June 10th, 2008 11:12 am

    This bug is really interesting and I did’t see yet.

  3. Kamy on June 10th, 2008 2:48 pm

    COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! :) :)

  4. Bogdan on June 10th, 2008 9:01 pm

    Oh come on, mate, they’re as old as the hills. Fun, but still ages old.
    http://www.guy-sports.com/humor/urban_myth/urban_myth_rand.htm

  5. arty on June 10th, 2008 9:54 pm

    I love the third one ;p

  6. Roshan on June 11th, 2008 4:34 am

    @Bogdan - Thanks mate, I knew about the third one way before but the first one and second one are quite new to me..

  7. subesh on June 11th, 2008 4:56 am

    Yeha…….cool………I could not believe that…….HA…….

  8. Ferruccio on June 11th, 2008 7:17 pm

    #1 isn’t a bug at all. It dates back all the way to MS-DOS 2.0 (talk about maintaining backward compatibility!). There are two (that I know of) hard-wired device names CON and NUL. CON represents the console and NUL the null device (like /dev/null on Unix). Logically, these devices “exist” in every directory, but you’ll never see them in a dir listing. Try this:

    C:>copy filename con

    where filename is an already existing file. It will copy the contents of the file to the console (hopefully it’s a text file). Copying anything to NUL sends it to the bit bucket.

  9. Danno Ferrin on June 11th, 2008 7:43 pm

    The issue with con (and prn, aux, nul, and bunches of others) is that these map to magical DOS devices, so you can redirect file output to the console ‘con’ and other such stuff.

    The tech support people obviously cannot use wikipedia, because the whole list of bad files is in the Filename entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename

  10. Florian Potschka on June 11th, 2008 7:52 pm

    Hey that’s great - I’ smarter than all the microsoft guys ;-) Just kidding. *g*

    The second bug is ages old: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts

    And for the first one, I would guess that’s because CON is the name for the display and console device driver. Also you cannot name a file AUX, PRN, COM1, COM2, …

  11. Bush on June 11th, 2008 8:18 pm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts

  12. na on June 11th, 2008 9:19 pm

    CON is reserved device name

  13. Dan Howard on June 11th, 2008 9:52 pm

    #1 is not a bug.

    Look up COPY CON DOS command.

  14. arda on June 11th, 2008 10:21 pm

    first one is not a bug either :)

    it’s a well known “feature” since the days of DOS

    check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_file

  15. Roshan on June 12th, 2008 5:30 am

    @all- Thanks for the link to wikipedia and I’ve tried with all the device file and we can’t create the folder with these names……thanks everybody

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  18. rajit on June 23rd, 2008 3:29 pm

    Ya this is not magical at all…
    I too had a post written about the same stufs some month ago but some of the comments that I got really answered all the mystery.
    CRazy Facts about Windows
    Thanks to my readers.

  19. Craig on August 25th, 2008 6:32 am

    “Microsoft the whole Team, couldn’t answer, why this happened!”
    c’mon, that’s so stupid. Because of that, it felt like reading some spammy e-mail my grandparents send to me.

  20. Roshan on August 25th, 2008 11:34 am

    @Craig - hey man don’t be so serious..it’s just a forwarded mail..you don’t have to be so serious about this…

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