On 3/8/2019 4:06 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Ant
writes:
Zaidy036 wrote:
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Zaidy036 wrote:
I have Googled but cannot find an answer:

Windows 7 Home SP-1 64bit and I see a file named
"C:\Windows\System32\NUL)".

Since it has a ")" at the end of its name I am wondering if it is a
"good" file.

It's a perfectly valid filename, I think even in 8.3; it's _unusual_ in
having the ")" in it, buy valid. It's also unusual (but still valid) in
having no extension, if that really is the case (you don't have
extensions left turned off, do you? Bad idea if so, and M$ should have
changed the default decades ago).

It is NUL file according to all of your references.

I just never saw a file name ending in ")" and am wondering if anybody
else sees the same name on their system.

Thanks. I don't see it in mine. Maybe a corrupted file? I guess you

Nor mine (7SP1 Home 32-bit). No file with NUL) anywhere in the filename
anywhere on my discs, and nothing between nt... and o... in my system32.

could put it in your recycle bin and see if it breaks your W7.

How big is it? Can you tell us anything else about it? (E. g., can you
see any text strings in it if you try to open it in Notepad or similar
[or try IrfanView which is pretty good at recognising image formats])?

How did you come to discover its presence?
I am now guessing it was from a typo/accidental key press of some sort
while a batch was running. Probably a ")" key as Paul suggested. It was
a "flash" in a cmd window that I happened to catch so I went exploring
for it and the ")" at the end looked strange to me.

The file is empty and now renamed xxxNUL).

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Zaidy036