That's an incredibly useful trick and now I wonder if there is a small Windows utility that makes it easy to recover similar ghost data?
[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
Or you could use Cheat Engine if you have a fear of terminals.
Beat me to it. Windows would be intolerable for me without MinGW/MSYS[0]. (Sure, there's WSL2, but that's not quite the same, and I was using MinGW and friends long before it existed.)