Microsoft Windows has a list of words reserved by the system. Usually these words refer to some kind of device. This makes it impossible to create a folder or file with a specific name, for example, “con”. However, you can surprise a friend, colleague, or computer science teacher and create such a folder as follows.
Instructions
Step 1
The first option for creating a "forbidden" folder is to create a folder via the command line. You must be logged into the Windows operating system under an administrator account to perform all available actions, or boot into Safe Mode. From the Start menu select Programs, Accessories folder, Command Prompt application.
Step 2
In the command prompt window that appears, enter: mkdir \.pathname
For example: mkdir \. C: con After entering the path for a folder, press Enter. To delete a folder, you will also need to access the command line: rmdir \.folder_path As you can see, only the beginning of the command changes. The option of creating reserved folders via the command line is dangerous. First, you can lose or damage files that will be stored in the folder created in this way. They can change the extension or simply disappear. Secondly, you may face the problem of starting the equipment, for example, the printer, the name of which you used in the "forbidden" folder.
Step 3
The second option for creating a folder named con is extremely simple. The fact is that all the names reserved by the system are written in Latin letters. Thus, when creating a regular folder in any directory, you can use the Cyrillic letters "c" and "o" instead of the Latin ones. Visually it will not be clear: these are letters of the English alphabet or Russian.
