You can't create a folder with this name!!!!

[muz]

I can confirm that the bush hid the facts bug doesn't work in Vista notepad.

It still won't let me name a folder CON in Vista, though.

yeah that is to do with port naming

for instance try and make an lpt1 folder , it shouldnt let you either

 

[Raffaz]

This goes back to ancient MSDOS. Certain names were 'pre-allocated' at every directory level - those names were basicaly I/O names - CON, LPT, COMx etc.

At one time there was a switch to allow those names to exist as long as they weren't in the root dorectory - no idea if this is still true or not.

Other folder names that you can't use

con (you know that already), nul & prn

If you want to create a folder called con, you can via the CLI, here's the command:

mkdir \\.\c:\con

to remove the directory, here's the command:

rmdir \\.\\c:\con

I believe you can't use these names as they are used for batch entry.

 

[spywarebanisher]

The Bush hid the facts thing is a UNICODE bug if I remember rightly. Don't know if it's still there in Vista because my machine running Vista blew up

wat happend?

 

[Rubber314Chicken]

the bush hid the facts thing does work with any combo nation. its just if you edit the text, then it wouldn't work again, and you have to create a new text document