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I used to do this on Windows XP to make my desktop look cleaner, all the files were ALT+255 repeated N times, or, more accurately, repeated a random number of times.

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But then how did you access those files yourself, if their names looked like just spaces? Would they not be invisible to you too?

I guess they did it with icons.

Makes sense, should have thought of it. Maybe I didn't because I am more of a backend and command line guy.

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