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[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You actually can, if you bypass some translation. \\?\C:\CON is a perfectly valid file path…and creating a file at that path will prevent almost all software from opening it! You can see it in File Explorer, but you can't delete it without a command prompt.