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 used every variation of the name Control Panel I could think of to name screenshots. Today, I tried to name 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! Windows forbade me!<\/span><\/p>\n Maybe sometime 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\u2014and I\u2019ve been using Windows for twenty-some years. It just goes to show you that no matter how much you think you know, there\u2019s always more to learn. I learned this because we learn many things by doing and trying things. That\u2019s the best way to learn.<\/span><\/p>\n This is just a fun tip. If you have an inquiring mind, you 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 Fun stuff, eh?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Forbidden Folder and File 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 used every variation of the name Control Panel I could think of to name screenshots. Today, I tried to name two\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":[4168,3948,4299,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29294"}],"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=29294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29295,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29294\/revisions\/29295"}],"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=29294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cloudeight](\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2018\/no-con-do.png\")
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