can i rename a folder as con in windows operating system. if not why?
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No, because in programming terms, 'con', is short for console, which means your screen. It is used to send output to 'con' or the console. It's an internal command in DOS and the word 'con' cannot be used by anything else... if you absolutely insist that you have a folder named con, name it C-o-n, C_o_N or c0n, <--C zero n  that's the only way i know of to do it
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it's the combination of spaces and squirrely chars.\n\nremove the parent dir with extreme prejudice...\n\nroot# rm -rf /path/to/dir\n\nif they're in /.Trashes ...\n\nroot# rm -rf /.Trashes\n\nif they're on another volume ...\n\nroot# rm -rf /Volumes/<volname>/.Trashes\n\nXP goes nuts when it comes to long file names or strange chars\nif need be rename and or click folder select props and uncheck hidden....then rename...remove
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When you right click on a file and then drag it on to any other location, windows gives you options to "Move", "Copy", "Create Shortcuts" to the new location or "Cancel" the operation. \n\nTry it!
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impossible\n\nb'coz by deleting the deleated folder all the data is destroyed by the server
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i came across this issue too.\n\nwhat i did was use explorer to make folders to brake everything down.\n\nfrom there if i wanted to have an album in order, i just renamed the files with a number in the front\n\nexample\n\nfile.mp3\nto\n01file .mp3\nor\nafile.mp3\n\nso on and so forth. you get the idea.
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OF course you can \nIf you go to Control Panel there is "Folder options" click on it and there you have that option
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Yes, you'll want to create a new user under Windows.  This will allow you to login differently and keep all your documents under a folder in your own name.  You can actually go and remove the folder for the old user afterward, as long as you remember to move any important documents from there BEFORE you delete.
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1. backup your registry\n2. goto start | run |regedit\n3. goto key HKEY_CURRENT_USER&#92;Software&#92;\nMicrosoft&#92;\nWindows&#92;\nCurrentVersion&#92;Policies&#92;\nExplorer and change value data in NoFolderOptions to 0\n\n4. do the same for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE&#92;Software&#92;\nMicrosoft&#92;Windows&#92;\nCurrentVersion&#92;Policies&#92;\nExplorer
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just get to file in your command prompt and rename\n\nex.if ur filenmae f1.ex1 you can type\n\nren f2.ex2 where f2 and e2 are new filename and extensions respectively,you can use the old ones also.
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the file could be inuse....hit control alt delete, and check running processes, then delete it from the running processes and you should be able to rename it
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This cannot be done through Excel. If running WindowsXP or any NT OS you can set folder and file permissions. See OS Help on "permissions" and then select "File and Folder Permissions" Also look up "user Accounts" \n\nIf you could prevent the deletion of the workbook, you'd break the way excel works.\n\nWhen excel saves the file, it saves it as a temporary file with a funny name (8 characters--no extension).  \n\nIf the save is successful, xl will delete the original (or rename it to its backup name (like "backup of book1.xlk)) and if that's successful, xl will rename the funny named file to the original's name. \n\nSo I'm not sure you could ever accomplish what you want.
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muhahahaha its geting to the stage when ppl dont know the old DOS any more So sad!!!\n\ncd&#92;\nDir\nDir /p\ndeltree\n\nIE \n\nCd&#92;windows (would put u in the windows Directory)\n\nThen Dir (would display the whats in the Directory) dir /p will do it will breaks so u can view whats in the folder\n\nHope it helps
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right click on the file, click Rename, then type in the new name...
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The basic problem is that CON is the built in name used for a standard I/O port representing "console". This is just like other ports, like LPT1, LPT2, COM1, COM2, etc. If you managed to created such a file/folder on your machine, all normal input and output that normally come from the keyboard and display on the screen would have to come from and go to the file/folder you created.\n\nDOS device names are reserved words, and cannot be\nused as folder or file names. When parsing a reference to a file or folder, Windows correctly checks for the case in which a single DOS device name is used in the path, and treats it as invalid.\n\nfollowing are reserved device names\n\nCON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4,\nCOM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4,LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.\n\nu cannot create a folder or file of the above names.\n\nThis actually is a unix-like feature. DOS device drivers are accessible like normal files, i.e. the everything-is-a-file philosophy. CON is the equivalent of /dev/tty, NUL of /dev/null, COM# of /dev/ttyS#, LPT# of /dev/lp# and CLOCK$ corresponds to /dev/rtc (PRN is an alias to LPT1, AUX is COM1). Every character device can be opened this way, block devices (which are assumed to be FAT formatted...) are named A: to Z:, as you will know. Many pseudo character devices (drivers which had to be loaded as drivers but were no character devices, like EMM386, HIMEM.SYS, ..) had forbidden characters like '*' in their device names to be hidden from the user.\n\nThe only problem is: DOS 1, which introduced CON, NUL, PRN and AUX had no directories, i.e. no /dev/, so for compatibility with old DOS1-executables (which don't know that they live in a directory) the character devices have to exist in every directory. Don't know why this feature was not limited to FCB (CP/M like) file access, unix like file numbers were introduced together with directories in DOS 2 (actually the MS programmers had Xenix machines on their desks, I heard)..\n\nsecondly i would say that some extra smart people try to create the Folder "con" by using special characters in front of the folder name such as now take for example one of my friend told me that he had created the folder "con". he showed me the syntax. the correct syntax for creating a folder in DOS is...\n\nmkdir con \n\nbut since the folder "con" cannot be created this command doesnt execute.\nnow see the syntax what my friend showed me\n\nmkdir &#92;.&#92;&#92;d:&#92;con  (warning : dont try on ur pc)\nand to delete the folder is\nrd &#92;.&#92;&#92;d:&#92;con\nu know wat will happen\nin windows xp u will c only a folder of name "con" but  the actual name is &#92;.&#92;&#92;con\nwe should not use special character in front of folder names.\n\nThere is one more technique to create "con" but it is not known to most of the people.\nThis is the alt+255 technique.\nIn this the user holds the "alt" key and then presses 255 from the numpad before or after the folder name.\nBut alt + 255 is the keyboard combination of underscore(_) or space which is a special character and hence can't be used for folder name.\nWhile displaying the name it wont show the special character, it will show only the name "con"\n\nNow regarding the file "con"\nyou may not have noticed but it is not only the folder "con" cannot be created but also u cannot create a file of name "con" (such as u can't create "con.txt",\n"con.doc","con.ppt" etc...)\nThe reason for this is as follows\n\nIn Dos there are two commands \nfor creating a file we use a command "copy con"\nthe syntax for creating a file in DOS is..\n\ncopy con <filename>\n\nusing the above command u can create a file in DOS.\nnow for copyng a file the command is "copy" in Dos\nthe synatx is ..\n\ncopy <filename1> <filename2&gt
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con is a reserved device name from the days of dos - as are aux, prn, nul, com1, com2+, lpt1, and many others.\n\nthey're pretty much redundant in 2006, but they are still built into the operating system and you cannot create folders with those names in windows to avoid conflicts.\n\ncon is the device name for console.
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Your username is not having access to these folders. This is the reason. You need to get the ownership of these folders.\n\nTo take the ownership of the folders, You must be having Administrative Privileges.  If you have it, then you can try these steps to delete those folders :\n\n1. Right click on the Folder. Click on Properties.\n2. Click on Security Tab\n3. In the lower-right part of the window, you will see a button named "Advanced". Click on it.\n4. Click on Owner Tab.\n5. Click on your Username / Administrator and put a tick on "Replace the owner"\n6. Click on OK. (Click "OK" for any windows appearing)\n\nNow you will be able to delete that folder.\n(These are the steps for Windows 2003 Server. Steps will be slight different for other versions of Operating Systems)\n\nGood luck.
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CON is a reserved keyword in Windows and MS-DOS. Since Windows maintains legacy support for older DOS programs, some of the DOS keywords are still prohibited from common use. Btw, CON is the keyword for System Console.