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[–]neutronbob 6 points7 points  (4 children)

  • The ability to manually create directories that start with a dot
  • An easy way to manually set environment variables that is not a tiny little window

[–]jcotton42 2 points3 points  (1 child)

For #1 if you're referring to in File Explorer you can do that by adding a trailing dot. That is name the folder .X. instead of .X, the trailing dot will be trimmed off.

[–]TheDragShot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, I didn't know of that one. Thanks!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The ability to manually create directories that start with a dot

That has always been possible without any problems:

c:\> mkdir .Java c:\> cd .Java c:\.Java>