{"id":5743,"date":"2012-12-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2012\/12\/25\/you-too-can-use-your-psychic-powers-spaces-in-paths\/"},"modified":"2012-12-25T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T07:00:00","slug":"you-too-can-use-your-psychic-powers-spaces-in-paths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20121225-00\/?p=5743","title":{"rendered":"You too can use your psychic powers: Spaces in paths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I&#8217;m going to be lazy today and make you solve the problem. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p> Did a recent security hotfix change change the way we handle UNC paths with spaces? Normally, if we open the <i>Run<\/i> dialog and type <code>\\\\server\\share\\Support Library\\<\/code>, the <code>Support Library<\/code> folder opens. But recently it stopped working. 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You have all the information you need. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be lazy today and make you solve the problem. Did a recent security hotfix change change the way we handle UNC paths with spaces? Normally, if we open the Run dialog and type \\\\server\\share\\Support Library\\, the Support Library folder opens. But recently it stopped working. Instead of opening the Support Library folder, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be lazy today and make you solve the problem. 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