A bug in microsoft

officialblueboys

officialblueboys

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Hi to all
I've found a bug in XP. Everyone knows that the HTML page. when we try to view the Source in Internet Explorer it will open by Notepad. I have created a folder named "Notepad" in my desktop. after that i try to view a web page source code. but it was not Opening with the Source code in Notepad. Instead of that it was opening the Notepad Folder . You can also try this .
 
works just fine for me.....

stupid firefox :P


it probably has to do with the fact that IE is integrated into windows. Folders are actually opened in "explorer" windows which is the same as IE. If you check the registry, it uses the desktop as the save directory. I imagine they hacked the code for that feature together and never checked it (as it's not really that important...heck 90% of MS owners don't know it exists or even what it does). What I'm guessing is that since explorer is integrated, it uses the desktop as it's root level. So everything that is called is called from the desktop. Now, you can still access everything under that level, including things in the system folder by simply making a call to them. Well when you have two items with the same name, the one at the higher level takes precidence. I found you can put anything on the desktop named "notepad" as long as it doesn't have a file extension, IE will try and open it.
 
The bug only works or should day doesn't work (one of them) when one clicks View> Source. It won't work if the user clicks on the Edit Icon (Edit with Notepad)
 
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