Handle File Ended with dot Character in Windows

Sometimes you download a file from Internet and it become a file ended with dot character which cannot be opened, renamed and deleted. I found this article on the Internet with the solution. To be able to handle this, you have to use the special path format in the command prompt.

\\?\C:\path_to_your_file.

So for example, you want to delete the file, the command you will use is:

del \\?\C:\path_to_your_file.

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