u/windowssandbox

Image 1 — Apparently this is what happens when a program creates a file inside Recycle Bin. (HOW)
Image 2 — Apparently this is what happens when a program creates a file inside Recycle Bin. (HOW)

Apparently this is what happens when a program creates a file inside Recycle Bin. (HOW)

(The .bak file is created by HxD once I opened "test.txt" inside HxD)

It shows that the .bak file has been deleted ~126 years ago.

(In 2nd screenshot, I added 00 00 then saved the file)

u/windowssandbox — 1 day ago

I somehow noclipped out of the map in Hall of Tortured Souls inside MS Excel 95.

Imagine if this is ARG lol.

Anyway it looks kinda creepy there, im wondering if there's gonna be farlands out there.

If you're asking how I noclipped out of map, well i just noclipped through the big red wall inside hidden passage when i fell down at the end.

u/windowssandbox — 1 day ago
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I somehow noclipped out of the map in Hall of Tortured Souls inside MS Excel 95.

Imagine if this is ARG lol.

Anyway it looks kinda creepy there, im wondering if there's gonna be farlands out there.

If you're asking how I noclipped out of map, well i just noclipped through the big red wall inside hidden passage when i fell down at the end.

u/windowssandbox — 1 day ago

pyasm - Custom assembly language with VM all inside python (my side project).

Well, here's my repo, you can read the README md file to know about pyasm: https://github.com/windowssandbox/pyasm

You can make games on it too, but i'm trying to find a way to make an instruction that listens if you are holding a specific key (from your keyboard) on that cycle.

(i've actually noticed that some of instructions in my pyasm's instruction set are from 6502 or RISC-V or Intel Processor and they all do the same thing. so is this like multi-assembly?)

And don't confuse buffers with registers (they are different, and there's buffer overflow error).

So, i'm guessing this is the subreddit's first time seeing a VM assembly coded inside python instead of C/C++

I'm gonna add some example codes tomorrow after i come back from exam finals, the final school day.

Alright, what do you think of my (probably) complex project?

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u/windowssandbox — 2 days ago

My mental health is probably glitching out for no reason

Ok im getting tired of these depression episodes that come out of nowhere without any reasons, every single day.

Look, I don't need to go to therapy because these depression episodes pop out of nowhere without any causes, and there's emotional numbness included. Another reason is that I live in Egypt and there are only very few therapy buildings that are far away.

But trying to find the reason to why my mental health glitches out like this makes the episodes more numby, it's like feeling empty, like my brain suddenly forgot how to be happy.

These episodes can last for ~30 minutes up to ~2 hours, but it seems like the duration of these episodes are starting to get longer. At this point I don't even care anymore, im just accepting the reality, not thinking of any way to escape it or else it'll make it more painful.

Attempting to figure it out is a fail too, it's not worth trying to figure it out anymore. I wish I had a dream where there is my subconscious in its physical form standing there, and wanted to ask it to fix these mental health glitches, like im supposed to file a bug report on my mental health real quick before it gets worse, but seems like i have no choice but to wait for that dream to happen. There is actually no way for me to have lucid dreams and just spawn subconscious in. Im probably gonna guess that it'll be just shadowy figure with white eyes just friendly.

Im just venting my thoughts here, no big deal, you can still comment if you want to. So, what do you think?

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u/windowssandbox — 5 days ago
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I built a custom assembly language / emulator (along with virtual CPU, RAM, PPU, and ROM) on Python. (pyasm)

Full information about pyasm can be found in README of my repo: https://github.com/windowssandbox/pyasm

Since I've added PPU yesterday, I'm wondering if making games on it is possible (like ping pong for example).

It's currently just 8-bit.

I'm gonna add more stuff to PPU and instruction set later. (instruction set opcodes are ordered based on when they are added)

Now the question is: how accurate is it compared to actual assembly?

(you can share your own pyasm code below)

u/windowssandbox — 7 days ago

Another security update but this time it keeps doing this:

I'll just put the screenshot in comments section, it's just update screen but keeps saying:

> Something didn't go as planned.

> No need to worry--undoing changes.

> Please keep your computer on.

Has anyone had this problem on their windows 11 before?

My windows 11 build is the 2025 april fools build (it has a 2026 preview update pending).

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u/windowssandbox — 9 days ago

I just built an entire simple assembly (6502 assembly styled) VM inside python that you can run without installing any packages. it only uses one built-in package which is sys , i call it pyasm

The instructions list and the pyasm script itself can be found in the github repo below:

https://github.com/windowssandbox/pyasm

If you want to run your own assembly code, download pyasm script file, open it on any editor you use, scroll down until you see code list variable, then edit it. (but before writing your code, you'll have to edit the rodata and bss structure)

To run the your pyasm code, open terminal on same folder as where you downloaded/moved the main py file, and run this:

python pyasm.py

(or just open pyasm script file)

The simulated CPU is protected by the way, so it'll halt when you try to JMP to same PC, or it'll print error when an invalid instruction is executed and more.

And in the #modifiers section, you can expand/extend rodata_size or bss_size, as well as enabling debug_mode which lets you see CPU registers and what instruction ran.

Apologies if the script is literally filled with if/elif/else conditions.

I'm curious to see if you can run graphical version of bad apple on pyasm. You can share your own pyasm code in comments section (but make sure it's easy to read just like the example code).

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u/windowssandbox — 15 days ago

Right after starting my PC, an update happened, which I already PAUSED updates for duration of 7 weeks and it's been only 2 weeks since I've paused updates.

Is there a command I can run on windows powershell that disables updates forever? because I do NOT want to update. This is all because my PC lags right after an update, and I do not want it to lag, I'm working on a project of my own.

My windows 11: Windows 11 Pro 24H2 build 26100.8246

Edit: an update is finished and GREAT, my pc is now slow.

I need multiple commands for disabling things that have zero purpose and take up my pc's resources.

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u/windowssandbox — 16 days ago

Warning: scrolling to comments section will contain spoilers, to make sure no one accidently sees your answers, you'll have to spoiler tag your answers like this: `>!(text)!<` . For proof not using AI, you'll have to explain how you managed to solve them.

1: HAYDERNWLCMTTHVIDWHILDSCUSSMTHABTCPHER

2: P7A3F3A3A7cS5W4e

3: iamthebrighestoneinthesky,whoami?

4: _inter__he_came__wht_cword___tao_._art_tye__bettle

5: Sn Hg Ve Ea Ma Jp St Ur Np Pl

6: (article) ((article) animal that is (color #FFA500)) (another form of jump) (pass by) (don't want to do (another form of chores)) (comma) (color #895129) (comma) ((article) animal that is (color #895129) and (long word of danger)) (period)

Which one of them is the hardest? Let me know below V

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u/windowssandbox — 20 days ago

I don't know what to say, I can't recall what I did in the past to get lucid dreaming working.

My dream recall was basically destroyed due to constant depressions happening in late 2025 and in 2026 (they always last for 10 minutes to 2 hours + i can still eat food), which caused me to be no longer interested in lucid dreaming due to that methods are not working anymore.

These methods were: MILD [deep focus on spawning in a dream place that i wanted, like the beach, which i tried in past and got my very first lucid dream (lasted for 1 minute)] and Dream Journaling (on notes app). I was 12 years old at that time. (right now, I'm 14 years old)

The only dreams I can recall right now are lucid dreams only, and every time I start thinking about the past experiences with it, I miss it more.

I wish I could've shared what was those lucid dreams were, but I can't due to rule 3 (why is it not allowed? like can't we get a flair tag for it?). I only remember 2 of them (1st one and the last one), I swear it was 6 lucid dreams I had.

All of dreams I'm having lately are just normal dreams which is not what I wanted.

Now I'm making my brain just hungry for lucid dreams and hope that it gives me a lucid dream, by thinking about everything I can do in a lucid dream (flying, teleporting, creating anything, psychic powers, etc). I think just dreaming on about it will bring it to a literal dream.

If I had lucid dreaming powers in dreams, I could've just analyzed how the brain builds a dream, I think it'll be just objects fading in with the sky fading in and everything else fading in.

Anyway, I'm gonna do dream journaling in special way: Putting the entire journal inside my brain memory, and even write one. All into permeant memory which is where my brain grabs relations from and builds a dream with it. Surely that will give me lucid dream powers if it wants it happening in the current dream. Some of them are gonna be having attached videos/pictures. I'm gonna include MILD too.

Here's how my journals are formatted (template for lucid dreams) (please note that I'm using metaphors because I don't know how my brain actually stores them in memory):

Dream ID: 0
Dream Type: Lucid - Vivid
Techniques used: MILD
Description: empty
Pictures (optional): None
Footage (optional): BlackScreen.mp4 (they will be named something like "Dream_0217346917.mp4" if there is a dream)

My brain doesn't need to store dates for them.

I'm gonna hope that my techniques will work on my brain, because most of techniques have misinformations on them.

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u/windowssandbox — 23 days ago