I cannot create a folder named “Con”

I cannot create a folder named “Con”

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:

• PRN
• AUX
• NUL
• LPT1
• COM1
• Potential drive letter – A: to Z:
• A number of others

If you try to name a folder using one of these reserved names, the name will automatically revert to the default, generally "New Folder".

I cannot create a folder named “Con”

A filename is a sequence of characters that identifies a file which is stored on a file system. Different file systems may allow or prohibit special characters appearing in your filename. Some of this characters is the backslash () ,slash (/),percent (%), question mark (?), asterisk (*), colon (:), vertical bar (|),quote (“),greater than (>), less than (<), and period (.). Since you can’t create a folder with a file name “con” (quote characters included), then you are using the Windows filesystems.

The Windows system prohibits using the quote character (“) since it is used to mark the beginning and the end of filenames containing spaces in Windows file systems.

I cannot create a folder named “Con”

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