Create a new folder and name it as CON
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not sure whether u guys/girls knows about this. pardon me if u already do but for those who haven't try it, try and create a new folder and name it as CON.
see what happens.
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cool....
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Becomes New Folder again.
MS conned me.
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wah mine became fiona xie porn vid...
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HAHAHAAHAH wtf
is is a bug? i nvr knew -
can try...
PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.
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name it CON, then the name changed to 'New Folder'
change 'New Folder' to 'Hit', and name it 'CON' again..
it will change to 'Hit'. -
It's some Windows bug fixed.
http://www.governmentsecurity.org/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t16294.html
To prevent any idiots from exploiting Windows. -
source file may be in use.Originally posted by omgukilledkenny:
can try...
PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.
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"A duplicate file name exists, or the file cannot be found."
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ahha !!! Ive seen this before many many moons ago...
http://www.astahost.com/info.php/can-create-folder-name-con_t13138.html
Like a lot of Winblows "features" this comes back to DOS and the way the file system works..
I bumped into this problem years ago when messing around with networked printers..I had to set up 5 new printers and I tried to name a folder "lpt1" for the name of the first printer and then i was going to put the drivers in that folder and share it out to all users..but I had the same problem..it wouldnt make the folder at all...I did some research and found out its because of DOS..also making folders with names such as anything starting in "com" such as "com1" give the same result..Its DOS reserving these names because it uses them itself to address these ports.
But hey theres a trick!!! try this!!-goto the command line then type this
cd\
mkdir \\.\c:\con
See how this works???now try to delete it!! in explorer---hahah!!!
The reason this is possible is down to UNC naming conventions..by adding the \\ in the statement it makes windows ignore the old DOS command to reserve this folder name..
Years and years later MS still finds funny quirks in DOS for us to play with ))
Ok I will be nice and tell you how to get rid of it...
Its a simple as this..
rmdir \\.\c:\con
Have fun!!
Edit
amm someone beat me by 30 secs to get the reply to this post ;((