Topic: Are there any other easter eggs like this in windows?
Anonymous A started this discussion 12 years ago #35,107
Renaming a new folder {9DB7A13C-F208-4981-8353-73CC61AE2783} turns the folder into an animated animal.
I want more of these.
I want more of these.
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Ks !KansasxqvM joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 21 minutes later[^] [v] #483,544
What if someone actually fell for that? That's not a very nice prank, Anonymous A. The setup was flawless though.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 1 minute later, 23 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #483,545
What would this do lol?
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 2 minutes later, 26 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #483,546
spoiler: the 9DB7A13C-F208-4981-8353-73CC61AE2783 GUID fucks up your system as in you cant easily delete it
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 9 minutes later, 35 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #483,547
i want an animal folder
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 16 hours later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #483,575
Anonymous E replied with this 12 years ago, 1 hour later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #483,597
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 1 day later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #483,757
@483,544 (Ks !KansasxqvM)
What's to fall for this is just renaming a folder, don't be silly.
@483,546 (D)
You are just tricking people so you can have the unique animal folder all to yourself!
@OP
thx, it worked for me!
What's to fall for this is just renaming a folder, don't be silly.
@483,546 (D)
You are just tricking people so you can have the unique animal folder all to yourself!
@OP
thx, it worked for me!
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #483,768
@previous (G)
> thx, it worked for me!
Yeah! This totally works! I run Ubuntu and it actually makes my system run 10% faster!
> thx, it worked for me!
Yeah! This totally works! I run Ubuntu and it actually makes my system run 10% faster!
The Captain !PundosRBSM joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 13 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #483,814
Outlook 2010beckyderp !verYWoWbyI joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 4 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #483,834
Anonymous D replied with this 12 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #483,835
@previous (beckyderp !verYWoWbyI)
it makes windows explorer crash, I think. It may be on purpose to make it close for some reason, or it's just a bug and it's a crash. So the result is that you can't open the regular explorer to delete the file again, but it can be deleted using the command prompt or a linux live cd.
it makes windows explorer crash, I think. It may be on purpose to make it close for some reason, or it's just a bug and it's a crash. So the result is that you can't open the regular explorer to delete the file again, but it can be deleted using the command prompt or a linux live cd.
beckyderp !verYWoWbyI replied with this 12 years ago, 2 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #483,836
Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 2 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #483,838
@483,834 (beckyderp !verYWoWbyI)
The GUID might be used in testing as a value known to trigger specific errors.
The GUID might be used in testing as a value known to trigger specific errors.
Anonymous D replied with this 12 years ago, 1 second later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #483,839
@483,836 (beckyderp !verYWoWbyI)
Windows has a list of GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifiers) which you can name your folders to do special things. This is how internally things like the Control Panel work, with a list of GUIDs that are used by it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee330741(v=vs.85).aspx
I assume the entire list either got published once by microsoft, can be found somewhere in the windows registry or someone reversed it from one of the windows executables.
Windows has a list of GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifiers) which you can name your folders to do special things. This is how internally things like the Control Panel work, with a list of GUIDs that are used by it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee330741(v=vs.85).aspx
I assume the entire list either got published once by microsoft, can be found somewhere in the windows registry or someone reversed it from one of the windows executables.
Anonymous D double-posted this 12 years ago, 4 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #483,842
Also these GUIDs actually function as extensions I think, so just naming a folder {BB64F8A7-BEE7-4E1A-AB8D-7D8273F7FDB6} would not have it open the action center, but instead you'd do Derp.{BB64F8A7-BEE7-4E1A-AB8D-7D8273F7FDB6} and you get a folder named Derp that opens the action center