Have you ever tried to create a folder named “con” on your windows xp or vista or any windows os ? You may have tried if somebody has challenged you to create one. You are told that you can’t create a folder named con on windows. But that’s not 100 % correct, We can create such folders but not following general ways. Try to create a folder with any of these names CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9 … You will not be successful if you go by general method of creating folder. Why ? When DOS was written, con, prn, etc were recognised as devices. So if such a folder could be created, there will be ambiguity about where the data should go, the virtual folder you created or the real devices (Since real devices are supposed to be virtual folders at device level). How can we create folders with such restricted names ?? Some people advice you to create con named folder by fooling your...