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MAKE A FOLDER NAMED "CON" OR "PRN" - COOL COMPUTER TRICKS



Do you know that you cant make a folder named as "con" or "prn". If u dnt believe then try to rename a folder give its new name con. It will give error that 'Specified Device name is invalid'. There are many words like con. Some of are them PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1
COM2,COM3, COM4, COM5,COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2,
 LPT3, LPT4,LPT5, LPT6,LPT7, LPT8, LPT9.
These words are windows inbuilt reserved device names. so we cant use them.

But here I provide you a trick by which you can name a folder by any of the above specified names, So go n challenge your friends and prove your superiority..

Here is solution, follow these steps:

1) Open Command Prompt (Type cmd in Run).
2) Type md \\.\d:\con to create a con folder in d drive, You can replace d with any drive .
Its done.




Now for deleting it Type
rd \\.\d:\con


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