I copy-n-pasted some text from Notepad into a command line window. The copied text included a tab character prefixing the text I copied, for example "{tab}test.exe". When I pasted this into the command line, the result was:
@OpenWithToastLogo.pngtest.exe
Wait, what?
A quick search on the computer in question as well as a subsequent one on Google revealed the following:
- On the computer in question, there is in fact a file named
@OpenWithToastLogo.png
located in the Windows System32 folder. - On Google, my scan of the search results seemed to show only non-specific answers (as of the writing of this question, that is) with the standard bevy of "is this malware" sites indicating that a virus scan showed the file not to be a virus.
What is the purpose of the @OpenWithToastLogo.png
file?
Also, why is "@OpenWithToastLogo.png" (text) associated with a pasted tab character in a command line window?
.png
?Tab
trigger autocompletion.