In order to perform this trick you need to do the following:
* Right click on the Desktop and create a new Shortcut
* Point the shortcut to an executable file such as c:\windows\system32\calc.exe
* Name the shortcut as say www.yahoo.com
* Start Internet Explorer and just type www.yahoo.com into the address bar
The above procedure opens windows calculator instead of going to yahoo website. In order to open the actual website you need to type full url with "http://".
Peter Watson, chief security adviser at Microsoft Australia, said this is not a security vulnerability but actually a feature that could be used by legitimate applications.
If you need to revert back to the way it was simply delete the shortcut you created.
This would be useful if you need to restrict your kid to a particular website by creating a shortcut in the name of the site.
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