Bug in Windows XP?
Published January 8th, 2006 in Microsoft, PC, Shorts, TechnologyI found this bug in a forum,plz check it out. 1) Create a folder on the desktop and name it as “Notepad” 2) Open a webpage (any) in IE and see its view source. Its Just AMAZING !!! [digg]
This isn’t a bug. If it was - you certainly wouldn’t have been the first to find it. It’s been found, dealt with, and explained long ago. Notepad is the default text editor in the Win-world. When you go to view-source, it throws “Notepad” as an argument at the shell. One of the first places Windows looks for Notepad is the desktop. Finding a “Notepad,” it passes the full path of the argument back to the shell for loading. The shell figures out its a folder and not an executable, and voila - you are viewing the contents of the folder as you would any other folder. This is more of a “parlor trick” than a bug. [comment on digg]
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