Why i can't create a folder named CON in my computer?
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you cant create folders named "con" "com1" "lpt1" "com2" because theyre all MS-DOS commands. so if you one day decided to use ms dos for your activities (i dno why) then if you tried to access a folder names con, you would drive the computer nuts(metaphorically).there are also some security issues associated with this. but if you really really want to create a folder named con(or anything for that matter), there is a way. after you rename the folder, press ALT+0160 and then press enter. TADA! this will be our little secret ok? how this works is that Alt-0160 creates a non-breaking space- so in theory theres actually another character after con but you dont see it!
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Folders with name: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, & LPT9\ncant be created using Windows Explorer or Command Prompt directly! ( Try this out.. right click on your desktop and try creating folder named "con"it changes back to "ew Folder" )\n\nThis is prevented as XP terms these folders as SYSTEM Folder Names reserved only for the Operating System.. But there is a backdoor..(this trick is to create system folders on XP through command prompt )\n\nTry this:\nCREATION\n\nSyntax:md &#92;&#92;.&#92;&#92;$path\nExample:prompt>md &#92;&#92;.&#92;&#92;C:&#92;con\nExplanation: This would create a folder named "con" on your "C Drive"\n\n\nSimilarly to delete such folder:\nDELETION\nSyntax:rd/s &#92;&#92;.&#92;&#92;$path\nExample:prompt>rd/s &#92;&#92;.&#92;&#92;C:&#92;con\nExplanation: This would remove the folder named "con"!\nNote: rd(Remove Directory) command is used with "/s" switch as otherwise it would give error that "folder is not empty"!\n\n\nOn another hand...if you ever wondered how to create a folder with no name...then try this:\n\nCreate a New Folder from Windows Explorer\nSelect rename & type: "ALT+255"(Use Numpad)..thats it!\nALT+255 stands for blank character in ASCII...so it still accepts your folder name!
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You don't need to create a directory. The driver should have an install program
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you can do it with a batch file\n\n.&#92;subfolder&#92;subfolder&#92;file.extension\n\nwill open the file regardless of the Pen Drive name or label.
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My first answer is, reboot.  Sometimes that's enough to take care of those sorts of problems.  If that doesn't work, open "My Computer" and go to the folder where you've saved it.  Find "Folder Options" in the menus--if you're using Windows XP, go to Tools->View Folder Options.  Then click on the "View" tab.  From there, look through the options until you find "Show Hidden Files and Folders", or something similar.\n\nOnce you can see hidden files, have another look at that directory and see if you've got some hidden files there.  Nine chances out of ten you do.  Look for files that have a name very close to the name you saved the file as and that are hidden files.  Go ahead and delete those ones.  DON'T DELETE THE ORIGINAL, NON-HIDDEN FILE.  If you're not sure, make a copy of the folder before you try it.  Once you delete the hidden locking files, you should be good to go.
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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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you have to create a new user account.  that folder is named after the login name in xp.  you may be able to modify your account name but I've never tried and not sure that would work.
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You cannot give the following as file/folder names in xp\ncon\nprn
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You must create it first, then next time you restart, It will be there\n\nCreate accounts from\nControl panel > User Accounts\n\nXLMan
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It is impossible if you have no other software but windows to lock folders, there is no Dos command can do the job.
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Do a files and folders search.  It is somewhere in the C drive.  When you find it, right click and create a shortcut, and place it on desktop
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nowhere, if you go into ''my computer'' and click ''tools'' and goto "folder options" put the dot beside ''show hidden files and folders'' under the "view'' tab
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KB179599\n"Cannot Move, Delete, or Rename Links Folder on Favorites Menu"
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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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Windows will not allow you to name files or folders after certain reserved names such as "LPT1" or "PRN".  These names refer to hardware devices in the system and would confuse the OS if you tried to refer to a file with that name.  "CON" is the system name for console.  Therefore you can not use that as a folder name.
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It's basically because DOS device drivers are files. You can not name folders in Windows as device names, such as: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.\n\nJust an old DOS thing. If you're desperate, you can create the folder by using this string in command.exe: mkdir&#92;&#92;.&#92;C:&#92;"Documents and Settings&#92;Administrator&#92;Desktop&#92;com"
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Which OS do you use?\nIn windows, Right click on the directory and selct Properties from the popup. In that Check the hidden option to be true. \nIn Linux also, you can do this. there is one more way. Rename the directory so as to start the name with a '.'(dot). eg, '.myDir'