An Indian 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
Folders with name:
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, & LPT9
cant be created using Windows Explorer or Command Prompt directly! ( Try this out.. right click on your desktop and try creating folder named "con"it changes back to "ew Folder" )
CON(Console) - The display monitor
PRN - Default value is LPT1
LPT1-LPT3(Printer Port)
AUX - Serial port 1 (COM1)
COM1-COM4
NUL
This is prevented as XP terms these folders as SYSTEM Folder Names reserved only for the Operating System.. But there is a backdoor...(this trick is to create system folders on XP through command prompt )
Try this: CREATION Syntax:md \\.\\$path
Example:prompt>md \\.\\C:\con
Explanation: This would create a folder named "con" on your "C Drive"
Similarly to delete such folder:
DELETION
Syntax:rd/s \\.\\$path
Example:prompt>rd/s \\.\\C:\con
Explanation: This would remove the folder named "con"!
Note: rd(Remove Directory) command is used with "/s" switch as otherwise it would give error that "folder is not empty"!
Step 1: Create New Folder .