Have you guys ever tried to make a folder with the name con or prn or nul. If not try it now and check if you can create them. If you aren’t then continue reading. These words (CON, PRN, NUL, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8 and LPT9) are reserved keywords called SYSTEM FOLDERS and can’t be created directly in Windows Explorer or Command Prompt. But fortunately we curios minds are very keen to do something that is not possible. Yes you can achieve creating those folders through Command Prompt. Just follow these instructions..
Go to start -> Run -> type in cmd or command
To create a folder named con in your C drive then, write this in the command prompt window down and press Enter
-> md \\.\c:\con
Similarly to create a folder named con in your D drive then, write this in the command prompt window down and press Enter
-> md \\.\d:\con
If you want to delete this folder
-> rd \\.\c:\con
In place of con you can write any desired name of your folder as if for now you can even try folder names like prn, nul and many others too.
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There is a bug in windows Xp which don’t let you make a folder with that name but now with this trick all I can say is
Everything is possible
Now I can surely say to my friends that I can make a folder which XP don’t allows
…why do people keep saying this is a bug in windows?! its a reserved name from way back before XP was even made, well before Win95 n so on.
But thanks for the solution on deleting this folder!! Made the folder in Unix to see if it would allow it, which it did lol
We cannot make folders of these names coz they r reserved for DOS prompt. Bt we cn create n delete those wid the help of DOS only.
To create folder named ‘con’: Go to the command Prompt ->
c:\>mkdir \\.\c:\con or c:\>md\\.\c:\con
To delete folder named ‘con’: Right click on the folder CON -> go to the advance option -> un-click the Index Services then :
Go to the command Prompt ->
c:\>DEL \\.\c:\con
or
c:\>rmdir \\.\c:\con
Regards:
Thakur Rahul Pratap Singh
Developer & Tester,
Lepide Software Solution.