I also wrote a PowerShell script that lists the super hidden file extensions, though you probably won't see anything new unless a third party program added any: gist.github.com/ThioJoe/461f713370e9e3f5a1d2206cf1a290f3
Yeah, they were like the precursor to .lnk files. Somewhere in the back of my brain is a memory of using them to run certain DOS games, as they'd store little bits of configuration information for how to run them.
The Channels scf file will be for the Channels feature in Internet Explorer 4.0.This feature was removed in ie5, so why is this file in an XP installation. The file will probably work properly in Windows 98. PIF files should be editable in 32 bit Windows by getting properties on them. They let you choose the startup options for the dos program you are trying to run. They were first introduced in Windows 3.0 but they were kept in later versions of Windows that could launch dos programs. PIF files in Windows 95 could even instruct windows to restart the computer to MSDOS to run the program instead of running it in Windows. PIF files in NT have basic hardware configuration options for NTVDM. 64 bit windows doesn't have NTVDM so pif file support is mostly removed from the OS. The create shortcut command would create a pif file not a lnk if you tried to create a shortcut to a msdos program. I believe that if a pif file has the same name as a dos program, Windows will automatically use the PIF when launching the DOS program allowing you to configure the behaviour of individual dos programs without needing to manually launch the pif file. Windows also used to have a default pif file to use when a program had no pif file allowing you to set the default dos session parameters for all dos programs.
Yeah the channels thing was if I remember correctly was the way Microsoft wanted people to used websites like channels on a TV didn't really work out . Probably for the best.
That's something else. The .scf files relevant to this video are System Command Files (called "Explorer Command Files" in the Type column in File Explorer). The button on the taskbar that you can click to show the desktop is an .scf file and contains this by default in Windows XP: [Shell] Command=2 IconFile=explorer.exe,3 [Taskbar] Command=ToggleDesktop
16:12: Those are most likely fonts - *Terminal* and *Lucida Console* are both fonts used in the command prompt in some cases, with Terminal being a raster font and Lucida Console being a newer TrueType font.
The difference between .url and .website, is that when you have Internet Explorer as default web browser, I think it'll treat the browser window as like a precursor to a PWA, by showing the website icon in the top-left of the window, in the taskbar and on the file in the desktop (.website), while a .url file will just act a shortcut to a website URL with no custom icon that is taken from the website. The .website feature doesn't work as intended anymore in Windows 11 as Internet Explorer now just points to Microsoft Edge instead and you can only open IE via the 'Internet Options' window and going through the menus to download an add-on for Internet Explorer 11.
@@adre2194 Yes. It was the last version of IE, before it was eventually discontinued in favour of MS Edge. And MS Edge is also something for its own video. The history, while not being as old, is fairly interesting. Edge started as a Gecko engine browser, just like IE, but eventually was remodelled to use Chromium as a base. Shortly after that, Microsoft implemented a killswitch to IE in Windows 10 and 11, and forced users to switch to Edge if they tried to open IE. To be fair, I kinda support this decision. Internet Explorer fell way behind and there was no way for it to get better. People already had a stigma against it, and its further and further older technology just proved to be inefficient, and pretty much didn't help for the reputation. Don't get me wrong, it was a good browser at a time. But once other browsers catched on and started improving, IE became a sitting duck, and this is where tables turned. Edge now has that stigma inherited from IE, people rather use Chrome or other browsers based on Chromium (Opera, Brave, etc.), or use Firefox (entirely different engine). I don't think that Edge is a bad browser, and not nearly as bad as IE became in recent history. But yes, Windows Internet Explorer 11 is the last IE version ever made.
@@CZghost You are incorrect in stating that Internet Explorer was a Gecko-based browser - Internet Explorer used its own proprietary browser engine (Trident), which Microsoft forked for Edge before they rebuilt Edge in Chromium. Firefox is the Gecko-based browser.
@@CZghost the stigma for Edge is kind of bs, because Chrome is basically everything bad about IE only worse, and for the modern era. Imagine people whining about the built in browser and then using.... googe fucking chrome. but then, there are people who whine about windows telemetry from their unmolested android devices - so... people are just fucking stupid and misinformed by biased, ignorant influencers.
LNK files are one of them, Windows hides the extensions. Also when I was a little kid I thought that folders also had a hidden extension just like LNK files or shortcuts.
@@ThioJoe Tip for game save files that store in AppData. Linking the deepest save directory too another drive stops save game files from taking space on the system drive.
TIL that they are binaries, so I now understand why, when I convert a Windows system over to Linux, they don't work, and aren't automatically translated into Linux links.
Can you make a video about using the SendTo folder to make useful tools/scripts that you would want to use often? I remember one of your old videos having something about it, but i cant remember the video it was mentioned in.
These Appref-ms kind of files are created by AVM internet routers, which are very common in germany. They allow you to have a USB device plugged into the router and then have them passed through to computers ("remote plug-in"). The software for that is distributed as an .application file
8:38, Funny enough, that format is being used in a company I work for. The app deploys something like a pop up notification system that notifies users if any system is currently down. The app is being deployed onto every Windows client that we use.
I worked for a company that made audit software and we used the click-once stuff, we would supplied the software to the company and they would put it on there server, then when there users start up the software it would download the new version to them. Useful when you when you have 50 plus users and you want them all using the current version.
I remember .pif files in Windows 3.x as it also had a PIF editor built into Windows. I didn't even know that windows even still used .pif files anymore and that it was abandoned after Windows 95 was released.
Windows:file extensions are super important, so we hide all of them by default, and even when you tell us to show them we hide some of them until you manually edit the registry *nix/BSD: File extensions are a nice hint to the user to let them know that to expect, we use things like XDG MIME to figure out what to do with the file itself, and sometimes we look at the first line in the file to learn more (like: how to run it) Also: Everything is a file, even hardware devices like the LEDs on your keyboard
Basically in the shell:sendto folder you just make a shortcut to a bat file, and move the shortcut into there. as long as the bat file does something with any arguments passed to (or dropped onto) it the batch file will run and do whatever action you like with the file.
I once "reverse engeneerd" (i hate spelling) how windows confugurrs file extensions using the regestry, i'll aparently still have some work to do, but my guess is that for example, the ".deskLink" is just a normal file extension with that forced hidden extension and uses a program that makes a shortcut from "%1" (first program / commandline parameter) to %userprofile%\Desktop"
I remember PIF files, They are metadata for Windows on how to handle DOS files. Obviously useful for 3.x and 95 era windows that had full DOS compatibility. DOS natively does not use them at all.
9:12 this is just normal .NET dll/exe assembly reference ClickOnce was (is?) part of Visual Studio. There was an option "Deploy with ClickOnce". My guess it was better suited for some internal installations via LAN, not for public.
Seems like it was, on my full comment I mentioned that this was bread and butter of my old work for one major application and if some random update crash it or even app randomly freezes we had to get to super old version which had less functions plus thankfully it happened in my shift once we all as our and few more departments had to switch to VOIP phone application which was annoying as we couldn't see if call was transferred or it was directly for our department by customer who needed our support. Pain ended with moving to another company where we have our own company provided phones which we use for internal calls and when it is needed calls to customers/clients.
It sounds like you never used/created .PIF files. It was a way to run DOS programs in Windows 3.x, maybe into Windows 9x (I forget). Applications tended to release Windows versions, since they greatly benefitted from the GUI and driver support that Windows API afforded, but hard-core games tended to stay DOS-based for a bit longer to get better performance. I think DirectX helped to get games to be Windows native, as well as well as Win 9x being 32 bit.
At some point there will be a video called "Microsoft asked me how Windows work" or some type of this lol Or "Microsoft asked me to write the next Windows myself"
Never show -- the plebs. I might be overly frustrated though. But then again, as one would be, being of these plebs. No. Not being passive-agressive at all. No. Just no.
There isn't a script, I was just saying I was using a third party program that has that feature. Also I didn't say I would link any script in the description so not sure what you're quoting from.
@@itsjustbusiness1989 Oh crap you're right, I forgot about that. I've added it to the description now. Though keep in mind the script just lists out the extensions that are set to be hidden, it doesn't actually change any setting or make them visible, you'd still have to manually do that yourself.
The reason why Mac is more powerful then windows is because these kinds of system files are in the form of Codes rather then pre compiled files. This helps changing the entire functionality. But I think Microsoft is removing these kind things. This is what I think! 🧐
I do have one question on the .url and .website and that is yes just a link to google dot come will work both way. but what about stuff like a website where the link takes you to a sort of login screen. think you have this travel site but you can´t be bothered to every time put in the I want to go from X to Y every time you visit it. if .URL or .Website support entering a site and inputting and taking you to the end destination (the thing you want to go to). instead of you going to that site. inputting the information and hitting submit.
"Lucida Console" is a font, which is still installed by default on modern versions of Windows. I believe it is the default for the Windows Console, and maybe also Windows Terminal (unless it defaults to Cascadia Code nowadays).
The URL one I've know about that for years as MacOS doesn't hide it, same as the LNK one. The extensions you mentioned at the end takes me way back to my childhood.
.pif files were used more often in pre-Windows 95 days. I think they allowed the user to set up parameters they normally used for different DOS programs. Channels came out in IE 4 in 1997. They would allow a user to sync some websites locally for offline viewing. Channels were supposedly also used to provide a more user-friendly way for people to find popular websites since the web was new to most people. Channels were discontinued by IE7. There was also a Channels Bar which would show big graphical buttons for these website channels.
One day I was organising My Music folders by adding Folder.jpg files to them so that they then appear as thumbnails to correspond to what music album it is when in thumbnail view. In one of the folders Windows told me that Folder.jpg already exists and I have no other choice other than to f*ck off or call it Folder2.jpg which wouldn't be recognised as a thumbnail - and I was like okay - ticked the box for Show hidden files - still the file wasn't there and I thought "Motherf*cker, how do I get to you, and when I find you I'll kill you..." then it hit me - I typed that file path, the whole thing into the Windows Explorer address bar, hit Enter and Windows Picture and Fax Viewer jumped on the screen with the little bastard sitting right there.....Hit on the red X to delete...Done. Pasted the thumbnail file I wanted and job done...But...WTF was it - why would Windows f*cking do this to me....
.pif stands for program information file. It allows you to run a DOS based program or game with specific settings like font size it's super useful especially for old dogs programs.
.pif is a something that I had forgotten about, although hardly surprising given how long ago that version of Windows was my "go to" OS. Program Information File, as I recall. In the properties for the file, I recall you could specify the windows runtime parameters for the application, which may have included window size, memory allocation, and other stuff. I do remember having to tweak them to get things running…
I also wrote a PowerShell script that lists the super hidden file extensions, though you probably won't see anything new unless a third party program added any: gist.github.com/ThioJoe/461f713370e9e3f5a1d2206cf1a290f3
PIF = Program Information File
Yeah, they were like the precursor to .lnk files. Somewhere in the back of my brain is a memory of using them to run certain DOS games, as they'd store little bits of configuration information for how to run them.
@@CyberKnight1 Jepp - and there was a PIF-Editor in Win3.1, 3.11 and Win9x…
If I remember right, the main reason you'd need this is to set the resolution & graphics mode for your game
@@SethMunroe and other things…
@@CyberKnight1you can still run dos games and pif files using dosbox
The Channels scf file will be for the Channels feature in Internet Explorer 4.0.This feature was removed in ie5, so why is this file in an XP installation. The file will probably work properly in Windows 98.
PIF files should be editable in 32 bit Windows by getting properties on them. They let you choose the startup options for the dos program you are trying to run. They were first introduced in Windows 3.0 but they were kept in later versions of Windows that could launch dos programs. PIF files in Windows 95 could even instruct windows to restart the computer to MSDOS to run the program instead of running it in Windows. PIF files in NT have basic hardware configuration options for NTVDM. 64 bit windows doesn't have NTVDM so pif file support is mostly removed from the OS. The create shortcut command would create a pif file not a lnk if you tried to create a shortcut to a msdos program. I believe that if a pif file has the same name as a dos program, Windows will automatically use the PIF when launching the DOS program allowing you to configure the behaviour of individual dos programs without needing to manually launch the pif file. Windows also used to have a default pif file to use when a program had no pif file allowing you to set the default dos session parameters for all dos programs.
PIF was the one I was familiar with.
Yeah the channels thing was if I remember correctly was the way Microsoft wanted people to used websites like channels on a TV didn't really work out . Probably for the best.
That's something else. The .scf files relevant to this video are System Command Files (called "Explorer Command Files" in the Type column in File Explorer). The button on the taskbar that you can click to show the desktop is an .scf file and contains this by default in Windows XP:
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop
16:12: Those are most likely fonts - *Terminal* and *Lucida Console* are both fonts used in the command prompt in some cases, with Terminal being a raster font and Lucida Console being a newer TrueType font.
It's always good to have a new ThioJoe video out while files are transferring on my PC.
downloading FBI confidential files*
@@realg701*downloading CIA confidential files
The difference between .url and .website, is that when you have Internet Explorer as default web browser, I think it'll treat the browser window as like a precursor to a PWA, by showing the website icon in the top-left of the window, in the taskbar and on the file in the desktop (.website), while a .url file will just act a shortcut to a website URL with no custom icon that is taken from the website.
The .website feature doesn't work as intended anymore in Windows 11 as Internet Explorer now just points to Microsoft Edge instead and you can only open IE via the 'Internet Options' window and going through the menus to download an add-on for Internet Explorer 11.
...there's an Internet Explorer 11?
@@adre2194 Yes. It was the last version of IE, before it was eventually discontinued in favour of MS Edge. And MS Edge is also something for its own video. The history, while not being as old, is fairly interesting. Edge started as a Gecko engine browser, just like IE, but eventually was remodelled to use Chromium as a base. Shortly after that, Microsoft implemented a killswitch to IE in Windows 10 and 11, and forced users to switch to Edge if they tried to open IE. To be fair, I kinda support this decision. Internet Explorer fell way behind and there was no way for it to get better. People already had a stigma against it, and its further and further older technology just proved to be inefficient, and pretty much didn't help for the reputation. Don't get me wrong, it was a good browser at a time. But once other browsers catched on and started improving, IE became a sitting duck, and this is where tables turned. Edge now has that stigma inherited from IE, people rather use Chrome or other browsers based on Chromium (Opera, Brave, etc.), or use Firefox (entirely different engine). I don't think that Edge is a bad browser, and not nearly as bad as IE became in recent history. But yes, Windows Internet Explorer 11 is the last IE version ever made.
@@CZghost You are incorrect in stating that Internet Explorer was a Gecko-based browser - Internet Explorer used its own proprietary browser engine (Trident), which Microsoft forked for Edge before they rebuilt Edge in Chromium. Firefox is the Gecko-based browser.
@@CZghost the stigma for Edge is kind of bs, because Chrome is basically everything bad about IE only worse, and for the modern era. Imagine people whining about the built in browser and then using.... googe fucking chrome. but then, there are people who whine about windows telemetry from their unmolested android devices - so... people are just fucking stupid and misinformed by biased, ignorant influencers.
@@tali64squared Oh, right. I got it mixed up, thanks. For some reason I thought that Gecko was the IE engine, I didn't remember Trident.
LNK files are one of them, Windows hides the extensions. Also when I was a little kid I thought that folders also had a hidden extension just like LNK files or shortcuts.
Yes I briefly mention them but made a video more in depth about those specifically 🧐
@@ThioJoe Nice!
@@ThioJoe Tip for game save files that store in AppData.
Linking the deepest save directory too another drive stops save game files from taking space on the system drive.
TIL that they are binaries, so I now understand why, when I convert a Windows system over to Linux, they don't work, and aren't automatically translated into Linux links.
@@erschrecken I also thought that for a few years
Can you make a video about using the SendTo folder to make useful tools/scripts that you would want to use often? I remember one of your old videos having something about it, but i cant remember the video it was mentioned in.
These Appref-ms kind of files are created by AVM internet routers, which are very common in germany. They allow you to have a USB device plugged into the router and then have them passed through to computers ("remote plug-in"). The software for that is distributed as an .application file
8:38, Funny enough, that format is being used in a company I work for. The app deploys something like a pop up notification system that notifies users if any system is currently down. The app is being deployed onto every Windows client that we use.
i would speak to your security team. and request they set a application execution policy in gpedit for whitelisting that specific app and thats it.
this is a vector for malware as well. there was a talk about it
talk title: ClickOnce and You're in - When Appref-ms Abuse is Operating as Intended
Yeah this is still in use, even by Microsoft I believe.
I think I've seen it when running Microsoft SaRA.
rare occasion of me being here 2 minutes ago after upload
3 minutes for me
If I recall well, PIF was the predecessor of LNK, for creating shortcuts for DOS programas inside Windows 3.x
I worked for a company that made audit software and we used the click-once stuff, we would supplied the software to the company and they would put it on there server, then when there users start up the software it would download the new version to them. Useful when you when you have 50 plus users and you want them all using the current version.
It feels like you know more than Microsoft’s engineers! 😮
Didn't Microsoft's engineer make this stuff though?
Wow PIF files are a blast from the past! I remember those from back in the Windows 3.11 days :)
I remember .pif files in Windows 3.x as it also had a PIF editor built into Windows. I didn't even know that windows even still used .pif files anymore and that it was abandoned after Windows 95 was released.
I remember posting a PowerShell script that scanned for all hidden file extensions in the comments of this video a while ago.
Windows:file extensions are super important, so we hide all of them by default, and even when you tell us to show them we hide some of them until you manually edit the registry
*nix/BSD:
File extensions are a nice hint to the user to let them know that to expect, we use things like XDG MIME to figure out what to do with the file itself, and sometimes we look at the first line in the file to learn more (like: how to run it)
Also: Everything is a file, even hardware devices like the LEDs on your keyboard
Directory Opus is great. Been using it since 4 on the A1200. It's one of the first things I install after Windows.
Very informative, interesting, and entertaining video.
would love to know how to make and send bat files to the send to directory... so that i can perform custom quick actions on a file
Basically in the shell:sendto folder you just make a shortcut to a bat file, and move the shortcut into there. as long as the bat file does something with any arguments passed to (or dropped onto) it the batch file will run and do whatever action you like with the file.
pif means Program Information Format and runs MS-DOS programs from Windows. I used to create them all the time in Windows 3.
Make A Video About Making The C Drive Inacessible
Idk how 🤔
@@ThioJoeyou could try restricting access to it?
@@ThioJoe Please Do It Because I Want You To Do It Please Promise That You Will Do It
@@tomtom987 Thats Exactly What I Want Him To Do
Enderman did it already, if you're curious
Man, I’m such a nerd that I’m getting hyped over secret file extensions.
in some windows insider builds you can see these file types it is changeable in the settings of the file explorer
16:15 Terminal and Lucida Console are font names! :)
PIF files were for windows 3.x. As someone mentioned Program Information File. You just put in there what the program needs to work specifically.
I once "reverse engeneerd" (i hate spelling) how windows confugurrs file extensions using the regestry, i'll aparently still have some work to do, but my guess is that for example, the ".deskLink" is just a normal file extension with that forced hidden extension and uses a program that makes a shortcut from "%1" (first program / commandline parameter) to %userprofile%\Desktop"
When you make an application on Visual Studio IDE (Not VS Code), and you "publish" the application, inside a folder, there is a ClickOnce
The show desktop link was there because keyboards didnt have a windows button, so win+d wasnt a thing ;)
I remember PIF files, They are metadata for Windows on how to handle DOS files. Obviously useful for 3.x and 95 era windows that had full DOS compatibility. DOS natively does not use them at all.
I think the scf files were Quick Launch items in the taskbar back in XP and before
13:50 wow the amount of bloat in Windows is incredible. Like, why keep a TV recording feature from the early 2000s twenty years later?
I’m only commenting because I randomly clicked on this video notification for absolutely no reason 💀
Same 😭😔
hm
Is this a step closer to reverting the "always use this when opening this extension" thing? Or has someone figured this out already and I missed it :)
8:34 I would like to try to do this installation method for my program, I need to look in more detail at how everything works.
Hi can you link the script from the "Technical Explanation" 00:53
@@chromebox you can just pause the video and screenshot it.
@@CrystalFier The screenshot says he will put the script in the description
Actually, the .website shortcuts affect what the colour of the back/forward buttons will be in the link
In case you didn't know, if you rename a .exe in a .pif file it will still work in x16, x32 and x64
Lucida Console is the font to be used for the DOS window.
9:12 this is just normal .NET dll/exe assembly reference
ClickOnce was (is?) part of Visual Studio. There was an option "Deploy with ClickOnce". My guess it was better suited for some internal installations via LAN, not for public.
Seems like it was, on my full comment I mentioned that this was bread and butter of my old work for one major application and if some random update crash it or even app randomly freezes we had to get to super old version which had less functions plus thankfully it happened in my shift once we all as our and few more departments had to switch to VOIP phone application which was annoying as we couldn't see if call was transferred or it was directly for our department by customer who needed our support. Pain ended with moving to another company where we have our own company provided phones which we use for internal calls and when it is needed calls to customers/clients.
So can you use these drop targets with move commands in terminal?
You ever make a vid talking about decimal vs binary information units, amd Windows' weird handling of them?
Great, now i might switch to double commander
Clickonce is used for the built in office program I'm pretty sure
I have one question.. why ThioJoe doesn't age?
he reminds me of actor Bradley James, in Merlin
It sounds like you never used/created .PIF files. It was a way to run DOS programs in Windows 3.x, maybe into Windows 9x (I forget). Applications tended to release Windows versions, since they greatly benefitted from the GUI and driver support that Windows API afforded, but hard-core games tended to stay DOS-based for a bit longer to get better performance. I think DirectX helped to get games to be Windows native, as well as well as Win 9x being 32 bit.
.website files can still be set to open in IE, not IE compatibility but the IE app itself. at least in 22H2 win10.
I can't contribute in money so I watch his sponsor in video
i love these type of videos
i dont even use windows but these vids are interesting
Someone has to make a script with these.
I wonder why XML files are used instead of stuff like JSON
I'm surprised windows 64 bit versions cannot run 16 bit applications, microsoft backward compatibility is usually extreme.
At some point there will be a video called "Microsoft asked me how Windows work" or some type of this lol Or "Microsoft asked me to write the next Windows myself"
Or use Total Commander and mark show hidden :)
Can't see the script for finding NeverShowExt in the description :(
I've added it now
@@ThioJoe thanks!
I bought Quake just last month 😅😅😅
where is thingjing
10:25 I hit save search. It broke my monitor
So what you are saying is that apart from the registry, everything in Windows is a file, just like Unix? 😜
The registry are multiple files too.
"wait it's all shrotcuts"
🔫
"Always has been"
SUBTITLES! :D
I want a file extension that automatically plays the latest UA-cam video from the Chemical Safety Board.
👋🏻 Late viewer here again.
He's found the super secret files and the super secret file extensions, next hes going to find windows 12
Interesting that there's a bunch of these, pretty unintuitive. Cuz files with no file extension at all do exist.
Damn this video must have been annoying to make having to to fishing in different os
windows has some of the weirdest ways to do things lmao
Bruh
These are all so jank seeming
HI
hello jo can you build me a problem
i dont have any money to pay you
Never show -- the plebs. I might be overly frustrated though. But then again, as one would be, being of these plebs. No. Not being passive-agressive at all. No. Just no.
> "I'll link a script in the description"
> doesn't link the script in the description
What did I not link in the description 🤔
@@ThioJoe a script that would reveal all hidden shortcut names (lnk, etc.)
There isn't a script, I was just saying I was using a third party program that has that feature. Also I didn't say I would link any script in the description so not sure what you're quoting from.
@@ThioJoe0:55 ?
@@itsjustbusiness1989 Oh crap you're right, I forgot about that. I've added it to the description now. Though keep in mind the script just lists out the extensions that are set to be hidden, it doesn't actually change any setting or make them visible, you'd still have to manually do that yourself.
Another useless video where seeing extensions does nothing for you... 99.999% of people with PC will ever use this crap.
All these file format stuff now getting pretty boring
The reason why Mac is more powerful then windows is because these kinds of system files are in the form of Codes rather then pre compiled files. This helps changing the entire functionality. But I think Microsoft is removing these kind things.
This is what I think! 🧐
Those codes you refer to on Macs are deeply embedded files.
First
57th
11:37 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I do have one question on the .url and .website
and that is yes just a link to google dot come will work both way.
but what about stuff like a website where the link takes you to a sort of login screen.
think you have this travel site but you can´t be bothered to every time put in the I want to go from X to Y every time you visit it.
if .URL or .Website support entering a site and inputting and taking you to the end destination (the thing you want to go to).
instead of you going to that site. inputting the information and hitting submit.
i always thought .Lnk was .ink
"Lucida Console" is a font, which is still installed by default on modern versions of Windows.
I believe it is the default for the Windows Console, and maybe also Windows Terminal (unless it defaults to Cascadia Code nowadays).
It's what I used when I needed a monospaced font.
Now I prefer Consolas, which looks quite similar but with a few characters better designed.
Fira Code is my favourite mono font.
Wow I'm 2nd viewer😄
Wow thanks Man.❤️
The URL one I've know about that for years as MacOS doesn't hide it, same as the LNK one. The extensions you mentioned at the end takes me way back to my childhood.
THE GOAT HAS UPLOADED
.pif files were used more often in pre-Windows 95 days. I think they allowed the user to set up parameters they normally used for different DOS programs. Channels came out in IE 4 in 1997. They would allow a user to sync some websites locally for offline viewing. Channels were supposedly also used to provide a more user-friendly way for people to find popular websites since the web was new to most people. Channels were discontinued by IE7. There was also a Channels Bar which would show big graphical buttons for these website channels.
One day I was organising My Music folders by adding Folder.jpg files to them so that they then appear as thumbnails to correspond to what music album it is when in thumbnail view. In one of the folders Windows told me that Folder.jpg already exists and I have no other choice other than to f*ck off or call it Folder2.jpg which wouldn't be recognised as a thumbnail - and I was like okay - ticked the box for Show hidden files - still the file wasn't there and I thought "Motherf*cker, how do I get to you, and when I find you I'll kill you..." then it hit me - I typed that file path, the whole thing into the Windows Explorer address bar, hit Enter and Windows Picture and Fax Viewer jumped on the screen with the little bastard sitting right there.....Hit on the red X to delete...Done. Pasted the thumbnail file I wanted and job done...But...WTF was it - why would Windows f*cking do this to me....
Stopping little Timmy’s from saying first
you failed sadly😔
@@magnetzadame NOOOOOOOOOOO
I know libraries ms. I actually HAVE SEEN AND MODIFIED THEM BEFORE.
Also your channel is great
.pif stands for program information file. It allows you to run a DOS based program or game with specific settings like font size it's super useful especially for old dogs programs.
me watching this video without any windows machine: *i feel infooormed!*
What about symlinks?
Those don't have an extension, there is a few videos on that on his channel if you're interested.
IIRC symlinks are an NTFS filesystem feature.
In DOS you could also assign a drive letter to a path
It's very interesting! 💭
I felt very dumb when he said that shortcut extensions are not called .ink but .LNK
wait they were called that??😭
.pif is a something that I had forgotten about, although hardly surprising given how long ago that version of Windows was my "go to" OS.
Program Information File, as I recall. In the properties for the file, I recall you could specify the windows runtime parameters for the application, which may have included window size, memory allocation, and other stuff.
I do remember having to tweak them to get things running…
Thx Joe!
using an AI to determine if something is a scam is a terrible idea