Can anybody do this?

Plz try to make a folder in any version of Windows and rename it to 'con'.
What happened?
Now tell me why?if you know.

 

Hi, santosh024. Welcome to Windows BBS!

You'll find several Google search results on rename folder con.

 

From the crazy engineers forum:

This is from one of the links on the google search by mailman.

I did it on my desktop.

 

It didn't work.
Although we can make it thru command prompt
c:\>mkdir \\.\c:\con

cheers

 

Yes, that is strange. It keeps jumping back to the origional name.

 

The word "con" is part of an internal dos command, it is short for CONsole. An example
copy con c:\test.txt
After this command is entered, the normal dos prompt disappears, as the Command Processor is ready to take what is entered at the console (keyboard), and then write into a file named c:\test.txt. Pressing Enter (carriage return) at the end of each line starts a new line. When CTRL+Z is used, the file is then written, you get a "1 file(s) written" or something to that affect as a confirmation. CTRL+C just ends it with nothing done.
Or another way to explain the command:
COPY what is entered at the CONsole and write into a file named test.txt into the root of the drive (C:\).
It has been awhile since I had to resort to using such a crude text editing method, but it has helped me out when I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. You can't jump back to the previous line if there is a mistake, gotta start all over.
The reason it is not allowed is because it already has a use in the operating system (even though you don't and may never use it), and computer code does not like to have conflicts. Yes or no, not a maybe.