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  1. Oct 8th, 2005, 10:55 AM #1
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    Resolved [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 it was / is true!!!!!
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  2. Oct 8th, 2005, 11:00 AM #2
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    Re: why cant you create folder???

    weird..
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    Re: why cant you create folder???

    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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    Re: why cant you create folder???

    Quote 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 it was / is true!!!!!
    Its a reserved device name, its been asked before.
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  6. Oct 8th, 2005, 01:42 PM #5
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    Re: why cant you create folder???

    Quote Originally Posted by thegreatone
    Its a reserved device name, its been asked before.
    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!!!
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  7. Oct 8th, 2005, 07:34 PM #6
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    Re: [RESOLVED] why cant you create folder???

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