Here's a challenge to all Mylotters - Create a folder by the name of Aux or Con
By rajeshfgh
@rajeshfgh (1629)
India
August 15, 2008 12:53am CST
on your desktop and tell me your experience. I have tried it only on Windows operating system and would like to have feedback on other operating systems as well. All the best 
4 responses
@sunshinecup (7871)
•
15 Aug 08
Yeah it's a glitch or a bug maybe on Windows, but there are a few others that won't work either supposedly.
PRN
CLOCK$ (NT and older)
NUL
COM1
COM2
COM3
COM4
COM5
COM6
COM7
COM8
COM9
LPT1
LPT2
LPT3
LPT4
LPT5
LPT6
LPT7
LPT8
LPT9
Strange huh?
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@sunshinecup (7871)
•
16 Aug 08
That's my guess on it. While I have found many of these listed on the internet, it's just been a hunch as to why, but I do lean towards your theory the most.
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@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
18 Aug 08
It has to be the most logical reason, but I still can't accept it as there's nothing like names to the OS. They are just strings of 1s and 0s and ascii characters which the computer understands. So, it's more strange why these are not allowed.
@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
16 Aug 08
Yeah, quite a list you've mentioned. I wonder why such names are not allowed. It has to do something which Windows doesn't want users to keep so that it doesn't confuse the OS. What say?
@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
16 Aug 08
I just got to know from one of my friends. I was amazing. Please try it on other OSs and let me know if it's the same there also.
@niv_musicman (346)
• Bangladesh
15 Aug 08
Wow! that's really awsome. I renamed it but it's all the same. Good job Bro!
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@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
16 Aug 08
Thanks bro, I wonder why this restriction though. Any answers???
@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
16 Aug 08
I too don't know the reason. I think it has something to do with names which are part of the windows environment and they don't want the computer to get confused with similar names. It's just my belief, I don't know the exact reason, though.
