Creating Folder named CON : Why You Cant Create It And How To Create
Monday | Labels: Tricks | |Recently Walking through forums and talk centers i came to know of a new game out there! People keep asking about
"Why Can't we create a folder in windows with the name con?"Frankly speaking many people were amazed to discover that they really can't create a folder with name con! If you too are amazed with fact then go ahead and give it a try!
"How Do i create a folder with name con?"
Besides con some other same kind of so-called-uncreateable names are LPT1, LPT2, COM, NUL ....... and so on
I would try to answer these questions
Why Can't we create a folder in windows with the name con?
You Can! oh yeah, its true... i'll show you how in second question..... But for the time being lets consider it can't be done by regular ways of creating or renaming a folder.
What these names are? Back in the older times of DOS these names denotes devices. CON meant console. As in one system you can't have two consoles that why you can't create it! same way with COM, LPT ....
So even when we today are using Windows XP these older traditions are carried on!
HOW DO I CREATE A FOLDER WITH NAME CON?Well there are two ways....
the 'con' act:-
if its just a folder that u want who's visible name reads "con"
create any folder...
F2 to rename...
Hold ALT and while holding type 255 from the side num pad, then release ALT and type con.
that was a 'con' act...
Network drive way:-
but if you are choosy and strictly want it to be "con"(no invisible characters) then...
open prompt(Run-->cmd)
type command...
mkdir \\.\d:\abc\con
assuming that u want the 'con' folder in the folder named "abc" on drive d:
How ever you won't be able to delete it with usual ways.
To delete try this command at command prompt
rmdir \\.\d:\abc\con
