Today, I was working on a tip about the Windows Control Panel and I took a screenshot. We have done a lot of tips about Control Panel and I had used about every variation of the name Control Panel I could think of to name screenshots. Today, I decided to name the two new Control Panel screenshots con and con1. But what to my bloodshot eyes should appear when I tried to name a file con.png?<\/span><\/p>\n This:<\/span><\/p>\n So \u2013 no con do, EB!<\/span><\/p>\n Somewhere in my long ago, I knew there were system reserved names that you could not use to name a file or folder, but I sure don\u2019t remember it. This came as a surprise to me \u2013 and I\u2019ve been using Windows for twenty-some years. Just goes to show you that no matter how much you think you know, there\u2019s always more to learn. I learned this like we learn a lot of things, by doing and trying things. That\u2019s the best way to learn.<\/span><\/p>\n This is just a fun Windows tip. If you have an inquiring mind, you just may want to know that in Windows these are the names that are reserved for Windows use only- so you can\u2019t use any of the following names to name a file or folder in Windows:<\/span><\/p>\n con<\/span> None of these names are case sensitive, so you can\u2019t get around using the names by using all capital letters\u2026 CON is the same as con in Windows. You can substitute a zero for the letter \u201co\u201d and use the names c0n, c0m1, c0m2, c0m3 \u2026 you get the picture! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prohibited File and Folder Names in Windows Today, I was working on a tip about the Windows Control Panel and I took a screenshot. We have done a lot of tips about Control Panel and I had used about every variation of the name Control Panel I could think of to name screenshots. Today, I decided\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4085,4086,4087],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20250,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20249\/revisions\/20250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cloudeight](\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/no-con-do.png\")
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