Magic Name

"I discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the
Computer which can be named as "CON". This is something pretty
Cool...and Unbelievable.... At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer why this happened!
TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE " CON " FOLDER

Not only the "con".


Also, the following words comes under this category,


AUX,

PRN,

CLOCK$,

COM,

LPT1,

LPT2,

LPT3,

COM2,

COM3,

COM4,

nul


We can't directly create files and folders in these names from windows; because, these are all reserved words.


But we can create files and folders in the name of reserved words! By using the command prompt


Ex:-


c:\> mkdir \\.\e:\con

c:\> dir \\.\e:\con

c:\> rmdir \\.\e:\con


It’s applicable for all the reserved words in windows and DOS. Try it out..


Note: The files and folders, which are all created in the above method, cannot be accessed directly from the windows. It will results in a not responding state