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Computer Magic Sand Tricks

Certain folder names like "CON" cannot be directly created in Windows as they are reserved words. However, they can be created using the command prompt with the \\.\ prefix on the path. Files and folders created this way using reserved words cannot be accessed directly from Windows.

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Computer Magic Sand Tricks

Certain folder names like "CON" cannot be directly created in Windows as they are reserved words. However, they can be created using the command prompt with the \\.\ prefix on the path. Files and folders created this way using reserved words cannot be accessed directly from Windows.

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MAGIC 1"

An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the


Computer which can be named as "CON". This is something pretty
Cool...and Unbelievable.... At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer why this
happened!
TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE " CON " FOLDER

Not only the "con".

Also, the following words comes under this category,

AUX,
PRN,
CLOCK$,
COM,
LPT1,
LPT2,
LPT3,
COM2,
COM3,
COM4,
nul

We can't directly create files and folders in these names from windows; because, these are
all reserved words.
But we can create files and folders in the name of reserved words! By using the command
prompt

Ex:-

c:\> mkdir \\.\e:\con

c:\> dir \\.\e:\con

c:\> rmdir \\.\e:\con

It’s applicable for all the reserved words in windows and DOS. Try it out..

Note: The files and folders, which are all created in the above method, cannot be accessed
directly from the windows. It will results in a not responding state
MAGIC 2

For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1.) Open an empty notepad file


2.) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)

3 .) Save it as whatever you want.


4.) Close it, and re-open it.

MAGIC 3

Open Microsoft Word and type

=rand (200, 99)

And then press ENTER


Then see the magic...

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