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Digging Into SECRET Windows Folders
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2024
- Let's hit 3000 likes? 💜 Windows Explorer has some hidden secrets which you can expose creating folders with weird names... We will dig into those and discover some very peculiar contents!
0:00 - Intro
0:03 - Inspiration
0:46 - #1: The Windows 7 "Easter Egg"
1:33 - #2: Folders and Explorer
2:18 - #3: Control Panel Settings
4:15 - #4: Shell Folders
6:11 - #5: Peculiar Folders
8:03 - #6: Very Peculiar Folders
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Unix: Everything is a file
Windows: Everything is a folder... 😂
😂
@@malwaretestingfan That's why I mostly use Linux
true=)
@@malwaretestingfan More like: Everything is still updating. Dont power off the pc.
Also Windows: A Folder is not A F O L D E R
(ngl a folder became a file i cant open it now. how do i open it?)
Me looking at the Windows UI: "Wait, it's all CLSIDs?"
Explorer pulling a gun: "Always has been"
@Barrer 898 "backround" LOL 10/10
@Barrer 898 more like you can't kill explorer in task manager otherwise you messed up
more like
“taskkill /f /im explorer.exe”
@@boalbads 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000/10
Fly: This run *doesn't run*
Me: *ah yes, a run that can't run*
A *run*
That *doesn’t run*
@@Watchmeloseit2012 hi "im"poster
But when you run it with a run, the run actually runs.
*haha file not go runnnnnn*
9:01 "No such interface supported"
Windows be like: How the hell do you get here
reminded of an Easter egg in gta3
Lol
lol The "Dopefish Lives!" of Windows
@@aryyancarman705 “You werent supposed to be able to get here you know”
Advancement made: How did we get here?
we will never be able to understand what the hell ms engineers were thinking when they designed this.
Pretty weird seeing right-click options in explorer. But it makes sense if all or most of these pages are stored in a common format. Then, they are just loaded/displayed differently depending on what is using them. Just a guess how it might work but anyways it doesn't seem too odd.
movie info Yep, it’s something along these lines
the same thing that Unix engineers where thinking when they made everything file, even the null is file
It all dates back to windows XP (and partially ME).
The idea was to simplify the internet and the operating system into one cohesive thing. Internet explorer and Explorer were extremely similar to eachother and even shared similar codebases. HTML Files at one point in a beta could be loaded in as wallpapers and settings menus were accessed through addresses, just as files & internet websites were.
It seemed like a good idea, except for the fact that it was a really stupid idea.
@@diamondcreeper0982 But in Unix, this is so that reading and writing to streams, be it files, sockets, pipes, peripheral devices, communication busses or stdin/stdout/stderr can all use the same system calls and kernel data structures. This makes sense from an engineering perspective. The null file is a file (or rather, device, since it sits in /dev/) that just throws away any data you write to it and /dev/random is just a device that, when read from, returns random data.
Having any random folder anywhere in the file system with a special name suddenly turn into a reference to menu options does not make sense from an engineering perspective. It only makes sense from a late Friday night hacking perspective.
It helps to understand that the entire philosophy of Windows is that everything in the code is a different class of a Window, hence the name of the operating system. The obvious Windows are the application frames, but everything else too like the buttons within the frame, different menus in the menu bar, pop-up menus, ribbon bars, status bars, etc. are all considered separate Windows. So it makes sense that say the View ribbon is actually just a Window which shows a bunch of 'buttons' that are actually one-click-activated scripts within a folder in the system somewhere.
like Android, where everything is considered a "surface?"
@@linuxization4205 It's like the X Display manager in Linux, where every graphic was its own window. Even the whole display was its own window.
@@bigshrekhorner Is Wayland like that? I really hope so.
@@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq Wayland hands compositing down to the window manager. It is up to each wayland wm to decide how to handle drawing anything on the display.
Wayland compositors can allow by design for the client itself to decide how to draw a window (and then the compositor gets the result and composits the final image to display) which means it's not necessary that the X philosophy persists.
Flytech: throws the recycle bin into itself.
Me: congratulations! You've just divided by zero and made a homemade black hole
0/0=X
Simple...
I just use algebra to get it right without using math (:
@@Versuffe 0 / 0 = **space key**
@Miguel Verissimo de Souza Press SPACE to -start- divide by zero
" Imagine recycling the Recycle bin "
-this post was made by the win10 devs gang
0:00 Intro
0:03 Inspiration
0:46 GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
1:33 Some CLSID and Folder with Files
2:18 Control Panel \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace
2:46 System.{BB06C0E4-D293-4f75-8A90-CB05B6477EEE}
3:27 Power Options.{025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D}
3:43 Internet Options.{A3DD4F92-658A-410F-84FD-6FBBBEF2FFFE} not Folder!!!
4:06 Installed Updates.{d450a8a1-9568-45c7-9c0e-b4f9fb4537bd} Dark Mode
4:15 Computer.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
5:00 Librares.{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}\
5:10 Recycle Bin.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
5:32 User.{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}
6:11 FakeUser.{DFFACDC5-679F-4156-8947-C5C76BC0B67F}
7:06 Run.{2559a1f3-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0} not Run
7:29 AppsFolder.{4234d49b-0245-4df3-b780-3893943456e1}
7:48 FakeZIP.{E88DCCE0-B7B3-11d1-A9F0-00AA0060FA31}
8:03 Command Folder.{437ff9c0-a07f-4fa0-af80-84b6c6440a16}
9:55 Recent.{22877a6d-37a1-461a-91b0-dbda5aaebc99}
10:51 Outro
thx
thx x2
7:07 "This is Run. It does not run." XD
fly: lets open a run shortcut!
run: no i wont run.
run won't run...
no i dont think i will
but run can run with run and run itself
LOl
run won't
I may be wrong but I remember that UAC provides old applications with virtual folders so that they would not break if they tried to access a folder that needs administrative privileges to access. I wonder if the folder at 6:20 has something to do with that.
dont mind me, im just going to create a bunch of Recents "folders" in my friends desktop...
5:18 The perfect representation of "Are you sure you wanna put Recycling Bin in the Recycling Bin" meme
I'm guessing the control folder has special files with actions bundled to them, hence the ‘Invoke’ option. When you delete something you invoke the delete action from the control folder, it doesn't work if you try directly from there because there is nothing to delete
this is probably how it works
Although Windows 8/8.1 did have an independent settings app too, like Windows 10. Also after a while Microsoft moved the system screen from Control Panel to Settings. Don't know why they're changing things though, it worked fine before.
It's because they need to re-architecture Explorer, but can't do it all at once due to their stupid backward compatibility policies. I loved how Control Panel and Explorer shared a UI.
Windows and his registry have hidden secrets but luckily Flytech shows them :)
*very hidden*
It's not that Microsoft puts all that effort to hide them.
@@malwaretestingfan a lot of it is to prevent the average user from breaking anything or barraging the support with “weird file” tickets, and you can basically disable all the tracking stuff with a couple minutes to check boxes. I don’t really like windows 10, but considering it’s been out for almost 7 years, I think someone would’ve noticed if that was the case.
Add a key into the registry named: NTFS_DIAGNOSTIC_PURPOSE1_22_1 (it doesn't matter where you add it). After that, restart and you'll see tons of weird .ovl files. Works in windows xp sp3.
Where in the registry?
Can't wait to see this one. OVLs are executables in MS DOS.
Hey, I tried that and it did not work. Does it really not matter where you add it? Also, how did you come to know about this? I did a quick online search and found 0 results. I would appreciate any additional info :)
@@FlyTechVideos Any success?
@@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq no, I can only consider this to be a fake
Finally I found out how to bring back the old System page in control panel! 😂
GOD MODE
or the way fly did it go in the registry and find it
Start>search control panel
If Microsoft didn't fix it, You can also open "This PC", right click empty field and click "Properties"
What if you wanted to open your "Homework" folder but windows said:
Windows cannot open the folder.
Access to the Folder
:C\Users\Yourname\Desktop\Homework .(E88IDCCE0-8783-11d1-A9F0-00AA0060FA31)' is denied.
Your parents will be like: WTF?!
its probably because your using the :C drive instead of the C: drive, the :C drive is always sad and lazy to open things
just hope ur parents dont know how to subst
@@aregprograms it suffers from depression XD
You meant:
%systemdrive%\Users\Yourname\Desktop\Homework.{E88IDCCE0-8783-11d1-A9F0-00AA0060FA31}' is denied.
7:14 Legends say he's still trying to run the run. It does not run tho...
Today: How to create a homemade system shorcut.
Tomorrow: Creating Con folder that breaks system and is a shorcut to system settings.
oh no stop giving this madman ideas
they are called classes literally because there is a c# or c++ class written for each such folder type
c# makes me go Y E S
@@marcels.7074 C# is barely C based
@@SFSAtlas ah, yes, por... i want say c# tutorials are still on my pc
Cool video!
Not related, but I wonder if you've heard of AdvancedRun. Its name is fairly self-explanatory, it's basically Run but you can do a TON more stuff, like specify which user things run on (even SYSTEM and TrustedInstaller), command line arguments, etc. It also requires no installation (just an executable) and is tiny (in the hundreds of Kilobytes range).
Also unrelated, but maybe you could do an update of your "shredding the C:\ drive" but in Windows 10, by starting a cmd prompt as TrustedInstaller using AdvancedRun and deleting the C:\ Drive. I know you get tons of video requests, and how long it takes to make videos, but it would make my day.
the dislikes are from windows tech support
are you no-brainer?? you're indian and your talking about your nation?
@@px4cz someone do woosh on him.
@@px4cz r/woooosh
*microsoft norton tech support
@@andreacorrea5921 somehow he's got 3 likes :/
7:14 this is run that *doesn't run*
I died laughing at that lol
It's unrun
unrun
@@Tobias_MC yes
"Wait, desktop is desktop?"
"Always has been."
I have always wondered what are in these folders..
They're not real folders. Using special "folders" as settings windows is stupid. They should be using dialogue boxes.
Navigate to the file operations folder
"cd Cut"
Makes perfect sense
Me: watches fly vids
His words: Desktop is desktop, This is run... It does not run
Me: *???*
I legit understood him.
(Not a joke)
You can also right-click the "This PC" entry in the Explorer sidebar and then rename it.
And now it's no longer This PC, but *OUR* PC.
Bro everyone know this
I wonder what dark secrets does Explorer have, after all it's deeply integrated into Windows
Try to deobfuscate explorer using software
Fly: This is _Run_
Also Fly: It does not run.
Inspirational quotes
5:17 I used the recycle bin to destroy the recycle bin
Unix: Everything is a file
Windows Explorer (kinda): Everything is a folder
Windows: Everything is an object
Yeah this is just a hack. They probably shouldn't have used Explorer for settings in the first place.
@@nonnymoose7005 They have integrated Internet Explorer with Explorer....
Windows works in kind of mysterious ways
Fly: *enters the code irl
The code: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Fly: I became a new god.
"This is run... It does not run."
WHY ARE YOU RUNNING
Run doesnt run. Run is smart
be like run
punzextravaganza
7:40 this is also a proper way to start UWP apps from the command line.
7:20 runception
Wow I like it, never knew creation of clones could be fun 😂😂
Honestly, I don't know why Microsoft created "PC Settings", because everything was fine in Control Panel.
"Fluent" design
@@ZhengZL69 Yes
I remember back when Windows 7 was still popular, I search for "easter egg in windows" and this "GodMode" feature show up and I was like: OMG, OMG, This is so cool, why Microsoft don't add this.
ITPro TH-cam r/woooosh
linux already added it in 1466
@@scarm_rune Meh. Apple included that on Mac OS already in 3000 B.C, probably Linux copied.
*_Little correction:_* Every settings was in Explorer until Windows 8 when they introduced that useless settings app which was mostly for basic stuff found in Control panel and the design of lock screen and user management.
Plot twist: Every software, files, photos, are all folders.
I think the blank icons that you can "invoke" are placeholders for apps that wish to add their own explorer shortcut.
When you find a folder to make a folder:
*Surprised Pikachu Face*
"I used the folder to make the folder" - Fly "Thanos" Tech
7:37 was actually the Applications folder, where all “installed” executables go.
"this is run"
"it does not run" was the best quote I've ever seen
fly: this is run.
also fly: it does not run.
me: my mind just broke but its ok
Well it isn’t much of a secret anymore
You know, the old Personalization Control Panel Applet from Windows 7 is still here. If you name a folder _Personalization.{ED834ED6-4B5A-4bfe-8F11-A626DCB6A921}_ , or write _shell:::{ED834ED6-4B5A-4bfe-8F11-A626DCB6A921}_ in Run you could achieve this unforgettable Control Panel Applet.
Flytech: answering the questions we never had
I just don't see ads in other videos ....but I love too see ads in your video.... We love your hard work... Love from india
Edit : by the way nice and informative video
Thank you 💚
💓💓💓💓
I like how at 2:50 the subscribe and bell buttons are synced to the bass in the music in the background. Maybe intentional maybe not but I thought it was funny
here's a weird fact on windows 10:
if you type "she" and letters up to "shell" the command prompt will appear ( on the searchbar next to your window button on the screen) even though command prompt doesnt have any of those letters. doesnt even appear when you type s or sh. only she, shel, and shell
The command prompt is a kind of command shell.
In 2021:Windows 11 logo! How!
Microsoft:This is the secret. fly tech the real windows master!
Fly tech:Really?
Microsoft:Yes!
Fly tech the real master Of Windows
@FlyTechVideos the reason the Cut icon went transparent is because the icon cut itself and when you cut a file windows makes the file hidden and you have hidden files enabled so it shows transparent
“This is run.”
“It does not run.”
It walks.
Revealing the true, indescribable horror beneath it all. Really love this video
Fun fact: In Windows 8.1 embedded, the files in delegate folder, are accesible.
Me :- win10 is old now. I know everything.
Flytech :- *Allow me to introduce myself*
I remember being able to recycle the recycle bin on vista with little to no effort
THE RAW POWER DID WORKED ON MY COMPUTER, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK, FLY! 👍👍👍👍
I know another way in which the Control Panel is like File Explorer. If you search up 'windows administrative tools', it brings up a Control Panel window with File Explorer's GUI, and clicking on a folder other than the ones in the Control Panel closes Control Panel and instantly switches to File Explorer.
Windows: Why i have 2 Fly users?
Flytech: Nah i just hacked you with Name.
My assumption is that the Perculiar Folder in segment 6 is an unfinished accessibility feature
Thank you! This video is interesting and helpful. I will try this myself and probably use some.
You're welcome!
You can actually run file explorer when explorer.exe isn't running with Control Panel. Go to control panel and click the navigation bar, then type in any folder path, for example "C:\"
I love how on Windows 11 System still works even though Windows 11 got rid of the system control panel and still shows Windows 10's logo
FlyTech:uses GodMode on a folder
me:imma use this on my windows 10
6:26 The folder is a lie
7:19 the Run button is a lie
"This is run. *It does not run*"
Ubisoft: Your banned!
Me: haha i own you 😂😂😂😂
Ubisoft: everything is a WINDOW 😡😡
Why does the right click menu context have "Invoke" for the weird icons if you're never supposed to see them? Unless I'm mistaken, I'd think nothing would happen. Is it a debugging artifact left by devs?
It's the default action for these icons. The action is called Invoke, and explorer displays that
Ah, I see! Thanks for the response
7:10 "This is run... It does not run."
That made me laugh ahah
Is it just me or does the background music almost sound like coffin dance
Oh God, don't remind me of that silly video of those people dancing under a coffin and one of them accidentally drops it and the body comes out.
"Run doesn't Run"
Feels legit
did you check properties of internet options?
maybe i should do that myself
I remember in old versions of Windows. You could rename a file with the extension .folder, and it would become a (corrupted) folder. You could not rename it from Explorer.
Any idea which version? I can't find anything about this online.
@@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq Pretty sure it was on XP SP3. Failed to look it up myself, but a few sites mention it is indeed a registry entry.
Roses Are Red,
Folders Are There
Windows Is Great
But My Computer Just Has A Death(BSOD)
*1:35* Ooh... you can hide your "homework" !
7:14:
So in other words...
*Run does not run.*
5:11 OMG THATS ILLEGAL TO HAVE TWO RECYCLE BINS
I have a secret in Windows 10 October 2020 update. System Info from Windows control panel was migrated to Settings app but is still in control panel.
To open this, go to This PC -> Right click on Folders or Devices and drives section -> Properties -> and TADAA.
4:50 (slams the table) DESKTOP IS DESKTOP!
7:06 Ah yes, Run does not run.
you can also just make a regular file or folder, select it with the lol.{22877a6d-37a1-461a-91b0-dbda5aaebc99} folder and hit delete
*accidentally recycles the recycle bin, causing space-time to break*
2:13 so with this i can hide my homework folder.
Windows: adds ads to make you upgrade to windows 11
Me: I hate you windows
Hey Tech videos im have a question
when I enter a folder in windows 7, how to select folder options / view, when I go to the bottom, there is an option "Hidden files and folders" and when I select the second option
I'll give ok, the files will appear on the desktop (1)testfile. ???
Finally, I can store my "homework" folder even more hidden
Try using a mac to mod some files in ways windows dosent expect.
Trust me, the limits are gone
he has finally proven the truth...
RUN DOES NOT RUN, RUN JUST RUNS RUN.
DELETE DOES NOT DELETE.
8:09 has to be my favourite
Awesome video as always
:)
10 min video never seen in flytech videos
bro, look at my recent videos. Not my only 10+ vid :E
Windows: everything's file under the hood
Linux: huh pathetic
"This is run"
Two seconds later
"It does not run"
run little thing
Here is an easter egg for windows 10: Enter the following text: "C:\Windows\explorer.exe shell:AppsFolder\c5e2524a-ea46-4f67-841f-6a9465d9d515_cw5n1h2txyewy!App" on the search box and you will get a secret app called the UWP File Explorer.