interesting windows "feature"

plaster · Post by **plaster** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:04 pm

did you know that you cannot create a folder in windows with the name "con"
?

bizarre.

Zinthek · Post by **Zinthek** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:21 pm

Haha, well what do you know, you can't.

Robot Criminal · Post by **Robot Criminal** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:11 pm

lol are u a con man u try such things?

thats plain weird "feature" though.

another cool thing - open up task manager and doubleclick on one of the edges of the window. (theres another trick for the mixer window but don't remember it)

ParanoidDancer · Post by **ParanoidDancer** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:13 pm

That's why I use os x. Windows is just plain weird..

ParanoidDancer · Post by **ParanoidDancer** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:13 pm

more windows features: http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.as ... 117870&c=1

midwestbass · Post by **midwestbass** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:14 pm

"con" is an old MS-DOS thing

usually, you can't make folders named any of the following:
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4...etc

there are ways around it...but its not worth the hassle

emoke · Post by **emoke** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:50 pm

ey ey this Microsoft suprises us every single day...

adam · Post by **adam** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:18 pm

Here's a cool windows feature:
You can actually stop using it and buy a mac.