Comment by vunderba

Comment by vunderba 3 days ago

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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 old-school ALT + 255 trick on Win9x machines where adding this "illegal trailing character" made the directory inaccessible from the regular file explorer.

Telemakhos 3 days ago

Shhh… that’s how we hid the Duke Nukem installs on the boxen in the dorm computer lab.

Someone1234 3 days ago

Up 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.