A Windows Error Nobody Can Fix!!! LOOOL!!!

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 16 Oct 2005, 22:42

LOOOOL!!! Check out the email I got:

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DID U KNOW THIS………

An Indian discovered that nobody can create a folder anywhere named
As "con"

This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the
Whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened!

Try it out yourself.
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Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 17 Oct 2005, 01:03

He's right, you know... 8)

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 17 Oct 2005, 01:16

I know! Isn't that... I mean, ok, this piece of information is just as useless as the eggs of an eunuch, but it's funny as hell.

ReconFive · Post by **ReconFive** » 17 Oct 2005, 07:12

lol..that is pretty strange

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 17 Oct 2005, 08:30

LOL !

Since "con" means "jerk" in french, I always believed it was some kind of automatic censorship on the french edition of Windows XP.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 17 Oct 2005, 10:36

Actually you can't call a folder "PRN" either.
CON and PRN are DOS commands. That's why they can't be used in Windows.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 17 Oct 2005, 11:48

But going by that logic, I wouldn't be able to call a folder 'dir'.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 17 Oct 2005, 11:56

True, but it's been a while since I've given up on DOS.
I've kinda forgotten how that stuff works.

AUX doesn't work either.
Neither do NUL, LPT1, COM1...

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 17 Oct 2005, 12:02

LOL, that's true, man!

f_drew · Post by **f_drew** » 17 Oct 2005, 15:44

Allegedly :
"
STEP1: goto command prompt

STEP2: type in prompt e:\> "mkdir \\.\e:\con"

STEP3: verify by typing "dir \\.\e:\con"

STEP4: delete the file or folder "rmdir \\.\e:\con"

"

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 17 Oct 2005, 15:57

Yep, it works. Thanks for the tip.

BiscLimpkit · Post by **BiscLimpkit** » 17 Oct 2005, 20:18

Interesting titles you got there.

So Tom, what you gonna keep in the Con folder??

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 17 Oct 2005, 20:53

Concerts, contacts, anything con-like...

gojensen · Post by **gojensen** » 20 Oct 2005, 10:25

Well, it's not because they are "dos commands" but because they are/were dos "devices"... I guess MS thought better safe than sorry when migrating it's way up to Win XP...

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 26 Oct 2005, 22:25

Gojensen is right. DIR is a command not a device.

That's flipping quality though.

'mkdir' is better known as 'md' and 'rmdir' as 'rd' btw.

What do the:

\\.\

Mean in the syntax? I've not come across those before.

I wonder if you can call a folder con with pre Windows XP or better yet Windows 95?

p.s - You need to substitute e: with c: for most people.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 26 Oct 2005, 22:28

29 Hours!

Oh that's how long it took for someone to crack this

Not quite as good as the 24 hours it took for someone to break Microsoft's recent "Genuine Windows Activation" bollocks. That made me chuckle.