why can't i create a folder with "con" name?

I'm so late but if you want 2 make a folder like that (CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9), then you would have to open a command prompt in that directory (C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe) or press the windows key + R then type in cmd then enter. Go the the directory you want (cd /FOLDER_PATH).

Then type in "mkdir con" without the quotations. you may replace the "con" with any of the folder names above.

BUT WAIT!!!!!!!!!

WHAT IF YOU WANT DO REMOVE THESE FOLDERS.

WELL I GOT YOU COVERED, DON'T WORRY.

:)

So if you want to remove the folder you made you just type in the following in the command prompt (cmd.exe) after you have set the command prompt to the directory by typing in (cd /FOLDER_PATH) as shown above.

So the magic command to remove these folders is "rd con" without the quotations. Again you may replace the "con" with the folder names above (whichever is on your pc).

Hope this helps :)))

I made sure to make the steps in details for beginers that do not know much about computers

So sorry for all the wasting of time if you already knew what you how to do it and just needed the commands

for that reason I have bolded the part you need to spot out of this text.

YOU ARE VERY WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!! :):):):):):):):):):):):)

still we could use dos commands in command prompt.

know about the copy con command of ms dos?

open command prompt and type

copy con newfile.txt

and a file will be created in the current working directory

if there exist a folder named con there is chaos and confusion.

First of all, MS-DOS has NOTHING to do with this discussion. You are thinking of the command-prompt. Second, do you really think the average person goes around opening command-prompts and issuing copy con … commands? Even advanced users and batch files rarely use con.

Most users could probably have a file or folder named con and go a long time before running into a problem. (That said, when they do run into a problem, for example by using a poorly-written program, the problem will be probably be pretty hard to diagnose.)

know about the copy con command of ms dos?

open command prompt and type

copy con newfile.txt

and a file will be created in the current working directory

if there exist a folder named con there is chaos and confusion. just like a programming language which doesnt allow identifiers to be named as any of its keywords.

Cheers hope this helps