Guys try to make con folder in win os can u??? yes ??? no??? Answer is No, bcoz their few names CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9 can be more too. are all Windows reserved device names from the early days of DOS. i tried this in CMD "mkdir \\.\c:\CON" This will create CON folder in e: drive. u will Reply from OS The directory name is invalid. Try if u get success....somehow...

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I just tried it, and if you try and create the folders the usual way, by right clicking and selecting New Folder, if you type one of those names in, it won't change the name, but you get no error messages or any explanation at all. Typical Microsoft You also cannot use the names for files either. It's all down to some basic error checking Microsoft started when DOS was used as the main front for PCs, which prevented device names cropping up in folder and file commands. Microsoft released a few patches for Windows 98, but they didn't really fix it, and I can't find anything for XP.

Supposedly there are a few workarounds for it, but they take ages, and it hardly seems worth it. Interesting find, though, Wolverine.

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They're different communication ports... that's why... it will confuse windows if you have a file called that, there's one way though

open command prompt, and open task manager

with command prompt open, go to task manager and click processes, end explorer.exe, your taskmanager a desktop will disapear, leave task manager open, in command prompt type cd X:\documents and settings\user\desktop (where X is your hard drive letter and user is your username), type mkdir con, this should do it, this can also brutuly mess around with your PC <.<

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We can create a con folder with the following steps-
Type the name of folder - con - then hold ALT key and now press 255 from the num pad.
You will see a folder on your desktop with name-con

-ankit garg

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Use this command
Md\\.\see:\con


It will make you the required folder and you will not be able to delete it..As normally you do to delete it use the following command

Rd\\.See:\con
Or
Rmdir\\.\see:\con

-reply by Ranjeet Malik

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Make con folder
Try To Make Con Folder In Microsoft Os

We can create a con folder with the following steps are ...
Type the name of folder .. Con ... Then hold ALT key and now press 0160 from the num pad.

You will see a folder on your desktop with name con




-reply by Hitesh

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Making the CON folder
Try To Make Con Folder In Microsoft Os

Replying to Wolverine

First open cmd.Exe
Then type
C:\>md con\\

Then your CON folder will make.

-reply by Gaurav

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Replying to Trap FeedBacker

It worked! creating the folder, writing con, and holding alt and typing 255 from the number pad, and it HAS to be the number pad, and Con was created. I was able to delete it after that too. No problems..Thanks!!

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Replying to Trap FeedBacker by pressing alt255 you insert a space (like when you press the SPACE KEY), that is why you can make the folder CON .

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Replying to WolverineI was created this are all folder CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9 on the desktop

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