[RESOLVED] why cant you create folder???

hi all!!!

just wanted to know that why cant nebody create a folder named "con" (without quotes) in Windows????

thnx!!!!

PS: i recieved a mail related to this n it says that even MS n Bill Gates couldn't make out why so??? i tried on 98 n :eek: it was / is true!!!!!

weird..

just like in Word 97, if you typed in xxxx, it would do the red line squiggles, and the only autocorrect word available was "sex"...

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Originally Posted by Harsh Gupta

hi all!!!

just wanted to know that why cant nebody create a folder named "con" (without quotes) in Windows????

thnx!!!!

PS: i recieved a mail related to this n it says that even MS n Bill Gates couldn't make out why so??? i tried on 98 n :eek: it was / is true!!!!!

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Its a reserved device name, its been asked before. :thumb:

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Originally Posted by thegreatone

Its a reserved device name, its been asked before. :thumb:

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oh.......actually i was not sure where to put it........so i posted it in this too!!!

thnx neway..........i never knew that CON is a reserved device name!!!

And even MS and Bill Gates knew about it. It's just part of their vast, prolonged, global anti-humanity conspiracy.