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Hello everyone, my question is that yesterday I tried to rename a folder and I chaged the folder name to "con" but I was not able to change to this name the error message was that the con is
A invalid name . I am running windows 8 single language. But why that error came? I have also tried change folder name on windows xp but I was unable to change .but why ?
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Hi,
"Why can't we make CON, PRN,Null folder in windows? \[duplicate\]"
"Forbidden file and folder names on Windows"
https://blog.onetechnical.com/2006/11/16/forbidden-file-and-folder-names-on-windows/
The following are reserved names, which cannot be assigned to a folder or file (normally):
Cheers.
