[Dwedit]

\\?\GLOBALROOT\ anyone? Now you're opening devices from the NT object namespace rather than files.

Bonus: You can create the file C:\con\con using NT Native API filesystem calls. Someone even made a video of installing Windows into C:\con\con, and the kernel-side stuff works beautifully, and the explorer shell side dies horribly.

[dustingetz]

AOL chat would bluescreen a Win95 box if someone sent a chat message like “}s\con\con” - }s was the directive to play a sound

[IIsi50MHz]

I believe it was more like: {s buddyin.wav}

At some point, I think it would only play sound files in the program's folder. I have the vague feeling that it was later changed to an AOL-created subfolder unique to each Windows user.

[rejectfinite]

>the kernel-side stuff works beautifully, and the explorer shell side dies horribly.

So, just like running Windows normally then? :D

[postmodest]

NT is Dave Cutler's best ideas for OS design, atop which Very Bad People piled the Win95 API and UX