Put 1638250757 in the Windows File Explorer Searchbar For a Surprise

25 Aug, 2025

What does this do?

Simply put, it opens your default web browser and opens 97.165.185.5, which serves this image of me and my girlfriend. My fursona and my girlfriend's fursona nuzzling and holding hands, with a heart with both of our fursona's colors above them.

How does this work?

I use the File Explorer searchbar for opening Command Prompt by typing "cmd". I eventually realized that when you type in a URL or IP address, it opens it in your default web browser.

So what I did was make my homeserver's IPv4 serve that image of me and my girlfriend (she drew that by the way, thanks wife :3) and typed in the single 32-bit unsigned integer of that IP, and sure enough, it worked.

I then posted about this in my friend's Signal group, then later posted it to Fedi. The post didn't get much attention like I hoped, probably because the Linux users didn't wanna spin up a virtual machine, but it's still a fun little thing I did and wanted to share, so internet points don't really matter in this case.

I will probably change it to be my Nixlabs VPS with 1 core and 2048MB of memory in the future since my IP address is dynamic, but until it changes it will redirect.

Thanks for reading!