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		PodgieTar on April 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open Sourcing DOS 4 I used to do this on Windows XP to make my desktop look cleaner, all the files were ALT+255 repeated N times, or, more accurately, repeated a random number of times.

fuzztester on May 3, 2024 [–]

But then how did you access those files yourself, if their names looked like just spaces? Would they not be invisible to you too?

KETHERCORTEX on May 5, 2024 | [–]

I guess they did it with icons.

fuzztester on May 8, 2024 | | [–]

Makes sense, should have thought of it. Maybe I didn't because I am more of a backend and command line guy.

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