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An Indian discovered that nobody can create a folder anywhere named as " con"
This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole
Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself...
sorry to say that this is a repost...but anyways, dont make me dishearten you...
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It is in fact perfectly true that you cannot create a folder named "CON", nor can you rename an existing folder to "CON". However, there is no mystery surrounding this restriction whatsoever. The "team" at Microsoft, and a great many others besides, know perfectly well why you cannot name a folder "CON". "CON" and a number of other character strings are in fact reserved names that go back to the days of DOS and cannot be used to name folders or files. Other reserved names are:
PRN
AUX
NUL
LPT1
COM1
Potential drive letter - A: to Z:
A number of others
If you try to name a folder using one of these reserved names, the name will automatically revert to the default, generally "New Folder".
It is nown to Gates and the entire MS team. I just got it off their website.
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