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Microsoft warns against disabling Windows legacy feature that can unlock huge performance
www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-warns-against-disabling-windows-legacy-feature-that-can-unlock-huge-performance/
Replying to @JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org
Windows can still create an additional short 8.3 alias for a long file name.
O.m.g.
They should have removed this ancient handbrake long ago. Now I learn that it not just still exists, but is also still engaged by default.
Replying to @Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
Okay. Now go to File Explorer and right click to create a new text file and try to name it “con”. That’s three letters: con. You can’t do it. Not allowed. Because CON has been reserved (in every directory on every drive) for piping to and from console since MS-DOS 2 or so. (I think 2 is when they stole pipes from Unix)
Okay. Now, open just about any kind of desktop window and double click in its upper left corner. In > 9 windows out of 10 that action still closes the window even though the “close window” button was moved to the upper right corner by Windows 3. Even though a bunch of modern applications don’t even have any icon there at all any more.
Replying to @mkwt@lemmy.world
“aux” is the same. And file ending doesn’t matter. Short version: I had this fun experience a few years back. I used cygwin and Vim for coding and used some old compiler for embedded systems. I created a file called “aux.c” in cygwin. No problem. I compiled my code. Got very strange error. Trouble shooted, tested a bunch of things. Wasted lots of hours before I figured out that “aux” was reserved on one abstraction later but not on another, so Vim/cygwin could access it. My dos compiler couldn’t. Fun times.