Keep in mind this usually doesn't work with the line of numbers above the letter keys; it's for the number pad that _doesn't_ come with every computer. If yours doesn't have one, you'll have to name your "special" folder something like "Tax Stuff" like everyone else.
Fundamentally, some BIOS character codes had no equivalent in the ISO 8859-1 derived character set used by 16 bit Windows, thus making the old non-unicode file explorer fail to display file names with those characters . The non-unicode keyboard driver would give up trying to send those missing characters to programs at all, but did have ALT+0xxx to type in all the new characters that weren't in DOS .
For anyone who's wondering you cant name a file con or the other names, its because they want to have backwards compatible with older devices and programs. Tom Scott made a great video on it, would recomment checking it out
@@WranornYep, a leftover from MSDOS 1.x not having a special name prefix or suffix for devices and \DEV\CON not catching on when it was optional in MSDOS 2.x . Thus every derived OS continues to check if the filename is a basic device name before looking at the disk . Colons in file names have a new cool function since 1993 .
The naming restriction for folders with names like "con," "aux," "prn," and a few others on Windows stems from historical reasons related to MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System). These names are reserved because they were once used as shorthand for device drivers in MS-DOS.
ALT+255 used to be inaccessible in much older versions of windows. You could only access from DOS. I used to hide DOOM at my friends house as his mom would freak out about that game.
Haha…That’s what I was thinking. I mean, you and Chuck pretty much have the same…is it cadence?🤔 and delivery style? Kinda Cool. If I didn’t see the network Chuck emblem in the corner, I would still think this video was affiliated somehow. Lol 🤷🏻♂️. Maybe it’s just me trippin’. 😅 🤙👊🏼 Right on.
Please make me an exception, I'd like to request a sample of that *homework* , for *research purposes* as I am a man who deeply studies about *culture.*
@@TalkingcatCOUGHCOUGHYeah…. P0rnography ain’t teaching you shite. Besides shite and maybe how the CGI team does things, camera angles, and basically anything you can find in any other kind of film. Besides how to draw Genitalia.
I once figured out how to make a directory junction that redirected to another folder, but BELOW that junction was actual data, like, as if it was a folder. How did I get to the data? Remove the junction. There was no other way; the data was just orphaned otherwise. Sadly, this was only possible in Windows XP, MS seems to have repaired that issue.
The reason why you can't name a file CON or any of the other abbreviations is simple. This thing goes back to the MS-DOS days where device names were first. The 'CON' filename was the console device, 'AUX' was the auxiliary device, 'PRN' was the printer device, and so on with the rest of them.
First I was like “woah, Chuck shaved his beard.” Then the guy started talking and I was like “woah, Chucks voice shaved its beard too.” Then I realized it wasn’t Chuck.
In the shell, you should be able to pull up the name of any folder for "cd-ing" into by simply typing "cd" then a space and then hit tab. Each time you hit tab, it suggests the next folder name. When you like the one it picks, you hit enter and bingo, you have cd'd into it.
Growing up, my buddy had an early mac, he had a folder on his desktop containing a grid of folders, each of those with still more folders. If you clicked on the wrong sequence of folders, it instantly shut down the computer. I bet you can imagine what sort of files were in there 😂.
You can fool everyone but God man, he dies for all sins, rose again and those who believed in him and accept his grace get to be with him or many choose to be without and come to destruction
The numbers overflow back to 0 after 255. So your alt + 2800 is simply alt + 240. As proof: if you do alt + 2870 this gives you a number "6". 2870 % 256 = 54. If you do alt + 54 this also gives the number "6".
@@reikooters I believe it is recognized as a different character though? For example, on discord I can send an en "empty" message containing only alt + 2800, but not alt + 255.
@@iannys2387 I wasn't saying 240 (or 2800 as you call it) and 255 are the same - I'm saying that the range is only between 0 to 255. So your 2800 is actually just 240. So you can type alt+240 (and any number +256 such as 496, or 752, etc) and all are the same character as what you call 2800
The following folder names are also not allowed as these are reserved for system tasks: CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.
iirc "alt-255" is known as the "non-breaking space" (essentially to prevent words/phrases from being split between separate lines on the page)", most programs detect it the same as a normal space but some treat it differently
Explaining what he didnt: In Windows operating systems, you cannot name a folder (or file) with certain reserved device names, including "CON," "AUX," "NUL," "COM1" through "COM9," "LPT1" through "LPT9," and a few others. These names are reserved because they have historical significance and are associated with various input/output devices and system components. Using these names as folder or file names could lead to conflicts with system operations and cause issues. For example, "CON" is associated with the console input and output, "AUX" with auxiliary devices, and "NUL" is a reserved name for the null device. Similarly, "COM5" refers to a communication port, and "LPT1" refers to the first parallel port. Windows enforces these restrictions to ensure system stability and prevent unintended problems that could occur if these reserved names were used for folder or file names. To avoid issues, choose different names for your folders or files that don't conflict with these reserved names.
I assume the conflict would be, for example if you're on the C drive in terminal, typing CON could either mean the CON folder in the current directory, or the "CON" device. If relative paths were not a thing this wouldn't be an issue
@@ticos1235 No, you cannot name a folder "PRN" in Windows. "PRN" is a reserved device name associated with the printer, and using it as a folder name could lead to conflicts with the system's printing functionality. It's advisable to choose a different name for your folder to avoid potential issues.
Yeah, you can easily access the folder in cmd, you just need to put quotes around the path. If you're in the same folder as the invisible folder, just type: cd " (and then press tab) you'll see the other space and the end quote. You can also use the "tree /F" command and it'll show the contents of the folder, so there are a few ways to get to the folder.
The reason is because those names he listed correspond to Windows components. If you go to print management and click "Ports", you'll see several ports with those names. Having a folder with that name would cause windows to get confused
I used to use an invisible directory trick for all the folders and application aliases on my desktop on OS 10.3 (I think it was just a space in the name, or started with something special). Then I had a bunch of custom icon packs for all of them. Loved the way it looked to have all the “buttons” on my desktop
Any programmer, who read the MS documentation like for example "Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces", in which it states: "Do not use the following reserved names for the name of a file: CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM0, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, COM¹, COM², COM³, LPT0, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9, LPT¹, LPT², and LPT³. Also avoid these names followed immediately by an extension; for example, NUL.txt and NUL.tar.gz are both equivalent to NUL. For more information, see Namespaces." But that information is referenced by the MS documentation multiple times. Those are reserved names for default device handlers. You for example can use those devices in the console or in batch files (given they are fully defined, the devices are installed and their driver is loaded into memory), for redirecting in and output to the specific devices: CON (console), PRN (default printer), AUX (auxiliary port device), NUL(data sink; read returns 0 byte and returns success, write operations discard all data and return success), COM0 - COM³ (communication port device 0 - 12), LPT0-LPT³ (line print terminal device 0 to 12).
neat trick, however the "invisible" icon doesnt work. as soon as you move the mouse, click, or mouse over it, it shows up as a black square. the only way to make it invisble again, is to go back and re-select the invisible icon. and even then it sometimes doesnt work and stays as a visible black square.
For those wondering how to type it, look for the numpad (it is on the far right of your keyboard. btw some computers may not have it) and you wanna press Num Lock. Then, hold down Alt, press 2 then press 5 twice. Then, let go. It may look like a space, but it is invisible character. Now type that into a folder and there u go
If it's on the desktop, click the desktop anywhere, to make sure nothing is selected, then just hit control+a, and you'll see the invisible folder has a selection border to it.
easy to figure out. command prompt, type DIR and look at the file sizes. the file names should be something along the line of "ALT+255(1)", "ALT +255(2)" etc... isolate the folder with file contents, since the rest should be empty. and then type DEL+"ALT+255*" hit ENTER. This would solve that problem.
"It's kinda hard to notice" Nah, that'd be the first thing I'd notice. A blank spot in a list (and I'm always looking at the details list) with a date created? Sussssss.
@@captainvenom4377you dont. If you don't write anything the 'autocompletion' starts from empty string which makes it enumerate over every item in current location. However, you can't /just/ type cd and tab into it. The character is a hard space ("non-breaking space"), and if you just input "cd", both gets trimmed out and cd runs with no arguments, just printing current path. What you have to do is enclose the 255 with within a quotations, which preserve spaces in file names (just as you'd have to do with cd "New Folder")
Nope, that doesn't work., _unless_ you use a quotation mark: *cd "* and then hit tab. Using quotation marks you can type it yourself too - *cd ""* - and it works.
You cannot use these in the Windows GUI because they are reserved for MS-DOS names, have system or device actions references so there are not really very technical reasons for it.
You can actually still reference it in cmd by literally just using the term: "Alt+255". Since the stuff cmd is built on didn't have the full unicode character list they just added them as the stated alt code.
@shawnstafford7809In this scenario the folder is always there and clickable and is hidden but usable. By making it a hidden folder it would mean to access it you would have to I hide it each time. Say you want your “homework” folder hidden but useable, you could leave it in the corner of the desktop and it would be always accessible to you clicking it’s position, but no one else would know it’s there. TLDR easier to open the folder
I haven't used windows in a long time, but if I recall, just like in linux, you can put a .dot in front of the name and the folder will be completely hidden, even in file explorer. Unless you tick a setting to show hidden folders.
You used to be able to lock up a Telegaurd BBS if you uploaded any file named LPT1, COM1, etc. Reminds me a bit of that. My work around was to have a hidden files section that had all of the system devices already in it -- so it would say file already exists instead of people locking the thing up.
Con is reserved for files being sent to a driver for a console device. If you did name a folder con, it would be sent to your console. PRN is printer as well.
When you go to desktop items list on taskbar it will be pretty easy to notice i guess unless maybe you make sure it is at the end i think order is based on position on the desktop.
Наука
The “homework” folder boutta become impenetrable
It has already been penetrated
Unlike the “homework” inside
I mean calling it “homework” technically wouldn’t be a lie 💀
@@ttalha08what if I do it at school?
@@Kilovotis 💀💀💀
It’s invisible till someone gets bored and starts playing with the blue selection square
I used to do that all the time as a kid
You could still see the blue square if you hover your cursor over it
Add password
I do this habitually while I’m sat at my computer talking to someone.
Or hits tab
"Dad, why is your desktop screen have all blue highlighted squares?"
daddy is hiding porn ...gay porn
He’s hiding a lot
Work around, mutliple windows
It's definitely not a bunch of videos I downloaded from the dark web.
Bro emotes like a character from a 90's Disney special.
this is space:
and this is the character:
you also cant name a folder space
Yeah... A bit excessive
Bro think he anime character
Gotta get a beard to seem more trusty
😂
😂
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Hi vsauce, Michael here
Lmeow
The homework folder is about to get an upgrade
Dawg 😂
Lol💀
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YURU YURI PFP??? AKARIN
Real
In CLI you can cd to it with
cd .\ \
as long as you're in the correct parent directory.
(note that space between the two backslashes is alt+255)
I think we can get rid of that dot
No we can't
Keep in mind this usually doesn't work with the line of numbers above the letter keys; it's for the number pad that _doesn't_ come with every computer. If yours doesn't have one, you'll have to name your "special" folder something like "Tax Stuff" like everyone else.
If you encase the Alt+255 in "Alt+255" it is accessible from DOS
Well yeah it just has no name, they don't see your desktop just your files
DOS?
@@a_man6094 Microsofts actual operating system
Fundamentally, some BIOS character codes had no equivalent in the ISO 8859-1 derived character set used by 16 bit Windows, thus making the old non-unicode file explorer fail to display file names with those characters . The non-unicode keyboard driver would give up trying to send those missing characters to programs at all, but did have ALT+0xxx to type in all the new characters that weren't in DOS .
whats DOS
are we all just screaming two in spanish
For anyone who's wondering you cant name a file con or the other names, its because they want to have backwards compatible with older devices and programs. Tom Scott made a great video on it, would recomment checking it out
Created a folder named "con" on the icloud drive and now windows will complain when it updates the files
Love Tom's videos
CONsole
AUXillary
LPT = Line Printer
COMmunication (Serial Port)
etc...
@@WranornYep, a leftover from MSDOS 1.x not having a special name prefix or suffix for devices and \DEV\CON not catching on when it was optional in MSDOS 2.x . Thus every derived OS continues to check if the filename is a basic device name before looking at the disk . Colons in file names have a new cool function since 1993 .
@@sxnap3480hence that would not be backwards compatible. You disagreed then proceeded to show he was correct.
My " Study material " gotta be Invisible now
The naming restriction for folders with names like "con," "aux," "prn," and a few others on Windows stems from historical reasons related to MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System). These names are reserved because they were once used as shorthand for device drivers in MS-DOS.
Device ports ... if you write to them they are 'raw' with NO driver.
ALT+255 used to be inaccessible in much older versions of windows. You could only access from DOS. I used to hide DOOM at my friends house as his mom would freak out about that game.
Lolz
you're the goat for that fr
Time comes when you grow up and put away childish things.
Like Windows...
Real men use Linux.
No exceptions.
@@Theineluctable_SOME_CANTdepends on what you need
@@n0tg lol...
Have a good 1...
I don’t know who this guy is but he looks exactly like his mother’s son.
Speaks just like him too.
That is hilarious!
i no ur butt was i - dave attell
@@Mr0rris0rip ruben
@@Mr0rris0 ehhh.. what? 😄
ALT+255 makes a completly invisible charcter
Space: wtf did i do
you cant name a file just space
@@jorgetami9070yes you can
@@jorgetami9070Thank you.
I can have my secret invisible folder...
Ctrl+A: What? what did you say?! 😂
“oh I think that’s chuck!”
narrator: “that was in fact, not chuck”
I'm just imaging shrek saying this
Hahaha, it's not Chuck; it's me!
Haha…That’s what I was thinking. I mean, you and Chuck pretty much have the same…is it cadence?🤔 and delivery style? Kinda Cool. If I didn’t see the network Chuck emblem in the corner, I would still think this video was affiliated somehow. Lol 🤷🏻♂️. Maybe it’s just me trippin’. 😅 🤙👊🏼 Right on.
HE PUT CHUCK BODY LOCATION IN THE SECRET FOLDER
I thought he was making a joke about being on a first name basis with the FBI
This guy has moved more in this short than I have all week
man's living on the john....
Hahaha I hear this a lot actually
@@alexmichaelwalkerat this point you should just be speaking sign language
He even managed to disappear and reappear!
That's kinda sad 😂
The homework folder is about to become invisible. Chuck=*Did you know you can't name a folder con*
Time to update my secret study material
Finally I can keep people out of my “ homework” folder
AYOOO
Haha mine it “Taxes”
@@ramstacpthat's actually genius, nobody wanna look at data sheet 😂
Why the hell would you download porn
Hey there. Jesus loves you! Through Him is the only way to heaven! May God bless you. 😊
Finally i can hide my *homework* folder so *no one else can copy my homework*
Please make me an exception, I'd like to request a sample of that *homework* , for *research purposes* as I am a man who deeply studies about *culture.*
👀
🫦
Yeah, I'm currently learning about the culture of Japan...and I need those *Japanese history* videos for *research…*
@@TalkingcatCOUGHCOUGHYeah….
P0rnography ain’t teaching you shite.
Besides shite and maybe how the CGI team does things, camera angles, and basically anything you can find in any other kind of film.
Besides how to draw Genitalia.
@@Aaa-vp6ug🦍
The homework folder is getting a major upgrade. Chuck=*Did you know you can't name a folder con*
Very impactful!
TIL everyone has a "homework" folder and not "New Folder" 5 times in itself, or simply "stuff."
I once figured out how to make a directory junction that redirected to another folder, but BELOW that junction was actual data, like, as if it was a folder. How did I get to the data? Remove the junction. There was no other way; the data was just orphaned otherwise. Sadly, this was only possible in Windows XP, MS seems to have repaired that issue.
nah, mines a lot more hidden than that
I just put mine in the "PerfLogs" since nothing really happens in there 🤷
@@Mavendow"issue" sounds more like a feature to me😂
I’ve used stuff lmao
He looks like the geoguesser
I get this so often!
sounds similar too
Wut?
Rainbolt
I don’t know why this dudes energy just makes me happy so now I’m just sitting here high happy and fucking confused. What a way to end my night.
The reason why you can't name a file CON or any of the other abbreviations is simple. This thing goes back to the MS-DOS days where device names were first. The 'CON' filename was the console device, 'AUX' was the auxiliary device, 'PRN' was the printer device, and so on with the rest of them.
First I was like “woah, Chuck shaved his beard.” Then the guy started talking and I was like “woah, Chucks voice shaved its beard too.” Then I realized it wasn’t Chuck.
Yoooh, this cracked me up😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
@@isaackvasager9957his manner of talking sounds same
a bunch of channels are mimicking chuck almost exactly now
He really changed after he sold his establishment to sneed
there's a horror story of a developer getting an error because they had a zero width white space character fucking up their code
Thanks for the new nightmare material, I won't be sleeping this week
that's what linters are for
that probably started the developers villian arc
Hell itself isnt as bad as this
Thankfully basically any decent ide will flag things like that now, as it's so rare you'd ever have on in there intentionally
Chuck has cooked this guy already ❤
Want to copy your editing technique. Your editor is killing it ❤
In the shell, you should be able to pull up the name of any folder for "cd-ing" into by simply typing "cd" then a space and then hit tab. Each time you hit tab, it suggests the next folder name. When you like the one it picks, you hit enter and bingo, you have cd'd into it.
Mom can we get tom Scott?
Tom Scott at home:
Bros Ohio Tom Scott
@@nomz8810ohio isn’t funny anymore
@@sheepstone23fr..
@@sheepstone23never was
@@sheepstone23The era of ohio has long since passed, the age of New Hampshire is upon us
Growing up, my buddy had an early mac, he had a folder on his desktop containing a grid of folders, each of those with still more folders. If you clicked on the wrong sequence of folders, it instantly shut down the computer. I bet you can imagine what sort of files were in there 😂.
Oneth
Either a techy person or someone that should be locked up
You can fool everyone but God man, he dies for all sins, rose again and those who believed in him and accept his grace get to be with him or many choose to be without and come to destruction
@@SpiritSpeaker01 No thanks
@@tehsmaonly your eternal loss….. no big deal right ?
Love this channel
Alt + 2800 also creates a whitespace, which can be used for instances where alt + 255 might not work
The numbers overflow back to 0 after 255. So your alt + 2800 is simply alt + 240. As proof: if you do alt + 2870 this gives you a number "6". 2870 % 256 = 54. If you do alt + 54 this also gives the number "6".
@@reikooters I believe it is recognized as a different character though? For example, on discord I can send an en "empty" message containing only alt + 2800, but not alt + 255.
@@iannys2387 I wasn't saying 240 (or 2800 as you call it) and 255 are the same - I'm saying that the range is only between 0 to 255. So your 2800 is actually just 240. So you can type alt+240 (and any number +256 such as 496, or 752, etc) and all are the same character as what you call 2800
@@reikooters Ah my bad 😅
I tried naming a folder this and it’s a character that’s just 3 lines. Not invisible
The following folder names are also not allowed as these are reserved for system tasks: CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8,
COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.
I think you can create one using a network route. Create a network share, open it and create a PRN folder inside.
DOS legacy
Pretty sure there's also COM0 and LPT0
all for external devices right?
prn more like porno.
Out of all the LPTs bro woke up and chose to say “LPT3” mad respect bro
iirc "alt-255" is known as the "non-breaking space" (essentially to prevent words/phrases from being split between separate lines on the page)", most programs detect it the same as a normal space but some treat it differently
Instructions unclear, now serving 4 life sentence in federal prison
Caaaaaarrrrll what did you dooooo????
@@participatoroftomfoolery Sacrificed donlad Trump parents to the Internet Gods in enchage for faster WiFi
Cp
Explain what happened Carl!
@@ReySchultz121 Sacrificed orphans, nothing special
Explaining what he didnt:
In Windows operating systems, you cannot name a folder (or file) with certain reserved device names, including "CON," "AUX," "NUL," "COM1" through "COM9," "LPT1" through "LPT9," and a few others. These names are reserved because they have historical significance and are associated with various input/output devices and system components. Using these names as folder or file names could lead to conflicts with system operations and cause issues.
For example, "CON" is associated with the console input and output, "AUX" with auxiliary devices, and "NUL" is a reserved name for the null device. Similarly, "COM5" refers to a communication port, and "LPT1" refers to the first parallel port.
Windows enforces these restrictions to ensure system stability and prevent unintended problems that could occur if these reserved names were used for folder or file names.
To avoid issues, choose different names for your folders or files that don't conflict with these reserved names.
Exactly, Tom Scott already made a great video on this years ago. Is this the best content NC can come up with?
I assume the conflict would be, for example if you're on the C drive in terminal, typing CON could either mean the CON folder in the current directory, or the "CON" device. If relative paths were not a thing this wouldn't be an issue
So why not PRN😗
@@ticos1235 No, you cannot name a folder "PRN" in Windows. "PRN" is a reserved device name associated with the printer, and using it as a folder name could lead to conflicts with the system's printing functionality. It's advisable to choose a different name for your folder to avoid potential issues.
@@Graftedsunlight that’s actually interesting lol. I would expect something like “PRT” as printer, not PRN.
chuck kidnapped and chucks bodylocation is wild
Yeah, you can easily access the folder in cmd, you just need to put quotes around the path. If you're in the same folder as the invisible folder, just type: cd " (and then press tab) you'll see the other space and the end quote. You can also use the "tree /F" command and it'll show the contents of the folder, so there are a few ways to get to the folder.
Thanks dude this is the best way for saving my *ehem* 30 GB of Biology videos without anyone knowing
30k pictures or about 40 hours of nonstop video is crazy
@@KuulMeln ye
@@KuulMeln it depends on the resolution
30?! ROOKIE NUMBERS. I got at least 84 GBs!
@@ego5809hah pathetic i got 69000 peta bytes
The technical details are the only reason I am here.
The reason is because those names he listed correspond to Windows components. If you go to print management and click "Ports", you'll see several ports with those names.
Having a folder with that name would cause windows to get confused
@@SoleFernit goes way farther back. those were all devices in DOS and would be addressable directly by using those names in commands.
to add to the foray, backwards compatibility. a relic from the DOS days.
@@0x5DASay hi to Shadow 🐕
Its fake
I love you for this video!!!
Dude looks like if the geoguesser guy was sober
Holy shit I can’t unsee it 😭😭
I literally checked the comments to see if anyone else thought they were brothers
@@isaacwest3625lol me too bro
legit
LMAO This is one of the best I've heard
Schlatt's folder of images from the 90's will be impossible for the FBI to ever find..
A "nameless", "invisible" folder huh? Perfect for all my "Homework"!
I used to use an invisible directory trick for all the folders and application aliases on my desktop on OS 10.3 (I think it was just a space in the name, or started with something special).
Then I had a bunch of custom icon packs for all of them. Loved the way it looked to have all the “buttons” on my desktop
Wonder who figured out you can’t name a folder “prn”😂
It actually stands for printer
someone that wanted to make folder of printers but "printer" was too long and windows shortens it to PRN so they tried it
p_rn
Any programmer, who read the MS documentation like for example "Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces", in which it states:
"Do not use the following reserved names for the name of a file:
CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM0, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, COM¹, COM², COM³, LPT0, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9, LPT¹, LPT², and LPT³. Also avoid these names followed immediately by an extension; for example, NUL.txt and NUL.tar.gz are both equivalent to NUL. For more information, see Namespaces."
But that information is referenced by the MS documentation multiple times. Those are reserved names for default device handlers.
You for example can use those devices in the console or in batch files (given they are fully defined, the devices are installed and their driver is loaded into memory), for redirecting in and output to the specific devices:
CON (console), PRN (default printer), AUX (auxiliary port device), NUL(data sink; read returns 0 byte and returns success, write operations discard all data and return success), COM0 - COM³ (communication port device 0 - 12), LPT0-LPT³ (line print terminal device 0 to 12).
Hat about the invisible character. Doesn't work for me on win11
Man discovers Tom Scott video from 3 years ago:
The guy who sings Today?
Exactly, I heard that first sentence and went STRAIGHT to the comments
Hahaha literally. Tom Scott is the GOAT
"If you dont know, how the fyck should I" 😂😂❤❤❤❤ Much Love Mindy!
now you can finally tell youre teacher, that your homework folder was shot by aliens with an invisibility gun
neat trick, however the "invisible" icon doesnt work. as soon as you move the mouse, click, or mouse over it, it shows up as a black square. the only way to make it invisble again, is to go back and re-select the invisible icon. and even then it sometimes doesnt work and stays as a visible black square.
so just hide the invisible folder in explorer
2 of the 3 incisible options turned black for me and 1 stayed invisible
Yup, same for me. It used to work in older versions of Windows tho
Sadly sometimes that invisible folder will replace the icon with a black square
Reminds me of the IRQ tables I had to memorize for A+ in 2001
I remember using CON back in the bad old days of MS-DOS. You could create a text file with "COPY CON ".
That FBI open up is cream 😂
you mean scream?
@@zedhow431 Haha.. it can be that as well
@@Aquabyte nahhh brooo 😭😭
The fbi knows this trick and my coworkers told me they found his files even after he did this
No way people are saying this now 😂
For those wondering how to type it, look for the numpad (it is on the far right of your keyboard. btw some computers may not have it) and you wanna press Num Lock. Then, hold down Alt, press 2 then press 5 twice. Then, let go. It may look like a space, but it is invisible character. Now type that into a folder and there u go
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Cant do on laptop
thank you, the family will never find the furry corn
I totally knew him and Chuck were related in 5 second by the way he expresses himself with his arms and hands. Lol
If it's on the desktop, click the desktop anywhere, to make sure nothing is selected, then just hit control+a, and you'll see the invisible folder has a selection border to it.
All fun and games until you ctrl + a on desktop
*magicccc*
nothing happened. The alt255 doesn't work either.
wdym? can u explain further?
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@@speake7777777gotta do it on the numeric pad, not the number on top of your keyboard
@@AwsmOceanohh
Found that out when I took the course "Computer Organisational Networks".
Dude stashed Chuck’s coffee in that folder.
all fun in games until someone makes minesweeper with your folders
easy to figure out. command prompt, type DIR and look at the file sizes. the file names should be something along the line of "ALT+255(1)", "ALT +255(2)" etc... isolate the folder with file contents, since the rest should be empty. and then type DEL+"ALT+255*" hit ENTER. This would solve that problem.
"It's kinda hard to notice"
Nah, that'd be the first thing I'd notice. A blank spot in a list (and I'm always looking at the details list) with a date created? Sussssss.
Amazing. I knew about the Con thing but not 255. Thanks a lot shall share this video and spread the word
This is so cool!!!
If you press tab in terminal it autocompletes current directory items. That way you can access it
it wouldnt work because you have to type something to have it auto complete
@@captainvenom4377you dont. If you don't write anything the 'autocompletion' starts from empty string which makes it enumerate over every item in current location.
However, you can't /just/ type cd and tab into it. The character is a hard space ("non-breaking space"), and if you just input "cd", both gets trimmed out and cd runs with no arguments, just printing current path.
What you have to do is enclose the 255 with within a quotations, which preserve spaces in file names (just as you'd have to do with cd "New Folder")
@@captainvenom4377no you dont
Nope, that doesn't work., _unless_ you use a quotation mark: *cd "* and then hit tab.
Using quotation marks you can type it yourself too - *cd ""* - and it works.
You cannot use these in the Windows GUI because they are reserved for MS-DOS names, have system or device actions references so there are not really very technical reasons for it.
You can actually still reference it in cmd by literally just using the term: "Alt+255". Since the stuff cmd is built on didn't have the full unicode character list they just added them as the stated alt code.
they are reserved names, CON e.g. stands for CONSOLE (i.e. the keyboard and screen).
These names have been reserved sine MS-DOS 2
You performed an impersonation attack on Chuck 😂
I don’t know why but the editing was funny af
That's thanks to "MyCool", one of our editors! He's the man
for those who type alt+255 below function key👇, it only work in numpad😃
It didn't work it for me even in numpad
@@ThaRePmake sure numlock is turned on so it uses the numbers
@shawnstafford7809In this scenario the folder is always there and clickable and is hidden but usable. By making it a hidden folder it would mean to access it you would have to I hide it each time.
Say you want your “homework” folder hidden but useable, you could leave it in the corner of the desktop and it would be always accessible to you clicking it’s position, but no one else would know it’s there.
TLDR easier to open the folder
@shawnstafford7809That works.. but only if the person looking for your homework folder doesn't know how to enable show hidden files.
@shawnstafford7809because everyone knows about "Show hidden files and folders"
Invisible link to a rick roll. They think they were about to find my secrets but in reality they just activated my trap card
I haven't used windows in a long time, but if I recall, just like in linux, you can put a .dot in front of the name and the folder will be completely hidden, even in file explorer. Unless you tick a setting to show hidden folders.
Most men actually knew about PRN.
hahahaha
😂
Ok, sexist.
bro you are 2 and a guy@@c26f
@@c26f we do not care
Everybody thinks they're safe doing this until someone clicks and drags over the desktop..
tip: if you go on your parent's laptop and add an "o" in between the "p" and "r" you can actually name a folder names prn!
Used to have this trick at least 12 years ago
You used to be able to lock up a Telegaurd BBS if you uploaded any file named LPT1, COM1, etc. Reminds me a bit of that. My work around was to have a hidden files section that had all of the system devices already in it -- so it would say file already exists instead of people locking the thing up.
Con is reserved for files being sent to a driver for a console device. If you did name a folder con, it would be sent to your console. PRN is printer as well.
I thought PRN was some… other thing..
I can’t remember why AUX is blocked though. 😞
@@desktop-iniI believe it's shortened for Auxiliary. Possibly to do with audio output
You mean your handheld??
Yeah have fun accessing that in the shell and debugging path issues
Yep, I used that same trick to hide games on our school computers thirty years ago lol.
These tricks were very famous at the time of windows XP. When I was a kid.
Imagine your parent find it and they like "My son is a hacker"
Very cool - thank you
lol this is like 2 decades tricks we do back at IT school when we mess around with the super strict network admin.
Imagine your mother walks in and presses Ctrl+A
Finally some NetworkChuck lore
This is awesome
When you go to desktop items list on taskbar it will be pretty easy to notice i guess unless maybe you make sure it is at the end i think order is based on position on the desktop.
NAHHHH NO WAY BRO MADE THAT 9/11 JOKE OUTTA NOWHERE 💀
There was a 911 joke?
@@snicker4237 look at the file dates/times at the end
@@newlazer8087that's 8/11 then 9/12 I don't think anything you picked up on was intentional
Finally i don't need to hide my homework under the futanari folder
i wrong you got it the think way around
@@Maraien🤯
Your goals are beyond our understanding
crazy ngl
IT tecnician: "How many desktop icon do you have?"
Customer: "I dont have desktop icons"
😂
Bro really has beef with Chuck 💀
Chuck=*Did you know you can't name a folder con*
Me=*Cond...*
PRN hmm I think I'm to innocent💀
… the ultimate homework folder has been created