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> Drives with a drive-letter other than A-Z do not appear in File Explorer, and cannot be navigated to in File Explorer.

Reminds me of the old-school ALT + 255 trick on Win9x machines where adding this "illegal trailing character" made the directory inaccessible from the regular file explorer.



Shhh… that’s how we hid the Duke Nukem installs on the boxen in the dorm computer lab.


Up until recently, you could do the same thing in the Windows Registry to make it so normal Windows tools (e.g. Regedit) couldn't view/modify certain entries. I believe it was still an issue in the last five~ years.





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