The tiniest Windows bug I’ve ever encountered
This is something that Dedoimedo should have noticed, among the so many cosmetic and non-cosmetic issues he keeps noticing, such as this stupid Windows LAN routing problem in which a Windows machine was trying to ping another Windows machine, but instead it said it couldn’t reach… itself!
Fortunately, mine is a microscopic cosmetic issue. Really inconsequential, but stupid nonetheless. Win10 22H2.
Take a look at these two Properties dialog boxes. Can you spot what’s wrong with them?
Zoomed at 200% (you can open the image in another browser tab):
OK, if you really cannot see it:
They don’t use the same fonts!
The reason is simple, albeit absurd: one file is on a device with exFAT, hence the missing Security tab (no ACLs or anything), whereas the second one is on an NTFS partition, which makes the Security tab necessary. But why would the presence or the absence of a tab change the typeface in all the tabs? (Not that it should have changed it in the respective tab, either.)
Because it’s Windows.
A harmless stupid little bug.
Ha, ha… probably coded at different times and rather than adding up to the existing code, they duplicated it and added it up in parallel. Funny anyone will notice though… For me, the intentional Windows’ awkward pointing cursor is far more disturbing!