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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chooty malli" data-source="post: 9438806" data-attributes="member: 273036">According to this rather breathless little message, which circulates via  email and online, it is not possible to create a folder named "CON" on a  Microsoft Windows based computer.  The message claims that not even  Bill Gates or the whole Microsoft "Team" can explain why this might be  so.It is in fact perfectly true that you cannot create a folder named  "CON", nor can you rename an existing folder to "CON".  However, there  is no mystery surrounding this restriction whatsoever. The "team" at  Microsoft, and a great many others besides, know perfectly well why you  cannot name a folder "CON".  "CON" and a number of other character strings are in fact reserved names  that go back to the days of DOS and cannot be used to name folders or  files. Other reserved names are:  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">PRN</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">AUX</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">NUL</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">LPT1</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">COM1</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Potential drive letter - A: to Z:</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A number of others</li> </ul>  If you try to name a folder using one of these reserved names, the name  will automatically revert to the default, generally "New Folder".   Moreover, if you try to use a reserved name to name a file such as a  Notepad or Microsoft Word document you will generally receive an error  message similar to the following: <img src="http://www.hoax-slayer.com/images/folder-con.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Depending on exactly how you save the file, you may instead receive a  warning message advising that a file with that name already exists.   However, even if you choose "Yes" to overwrite the existing file, you  will still not be allowed to save the file.It should be noted that, by entering the right sequence of commands via  the command prompt, it is usually possible to circumvent  the  restriction in Winodows and create a folder using a reserved name.   However, this may cause other problems and is not advisable, especially  for more inexperienced users. While there is no mystery about this issue, it might have saved user  confusion if Windows displayed an explanatory error message when  attempting to create a folder with a reserved name as well. "CON" is a reserved name that dates back to the days of MS-DOS and is short for "CONsole". The idea is that any program could write to the screen or read from the keyboard simply by opening and acting on a file by the name of CON. Try this sometime in a Windows Command Prompt:</blockquote>

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