Bit: Ly Windowstxt
It read like a field guide to Windows weirdness — part debugging diary, part undocumented behavior archive. No author name. No date. Just 147 lines of pragmatic, seasoned observations. Reverse-searching the Gist owner turned up a deleted GitHub account, but cached tweets pointed to a former Microsoft engineer who left in 2022. Their bio: “Collecting Windows footguns so you don’t have to.”
# Legacy quirks - do not remove HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes MS Shell Dlg -> Microsoft Sans Serif Trigger: Right-click > New > Folder, then F5 rapidly. Workaround: None reliable. Restart shell. NTFS stream oddity echo "hidden" > file.txt:secret dir /r shows it. Most antivirus ignores. Win11 23H2+ Copilot key mapping 0x5B + 0x77 -> launches copilot.exe (not reassignable via UI) bit ly windowstxt
April 14, 2026
It read like a field guide to Windows weirdness — part debugging diary, part undocumented behavior archive. No author name. No date. Just 147 lines of pragmatic, seasoned observations. Reverse-searching the Gist owner turned up a deleted GitHub account, but cached tweets pointed to a former Microsoft engineer who left in 2022. Their bio: “Collecting Windows footguns so you don’t have to.”
# Legacy quirks - do not remove HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes MS Shell Dlg -> Microsoft Sans Serif Trigger: Right-click > New > Folder, then F5 rapidly. Workaround: None reliable. Restart shell. NTFS stream oddity echo "hidden" > file.txt:secret dir /r shows it. Most antivirus ignores. Win11 23H2+ Copilot key mapping 0x5B + 0x77 -> launches copilot.exe (not reassignable via UI)
April 14, 2026
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