It is no secret that at present Microsoft Windows is the most popular operating system under which the vast majority of users around the world work. Software produced by Microsoft, which has been successfully operating in the global market for more than thirty-five years, is installed on 90% of computers around the world. Since 1975, when two ordinary students, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, decided to open their own software company, Windows from MS-DOS add-ons turned into a full-fledged operating system that allows you to perform many different tasks. Such success cannot fail to amaze the imagination. However, not every user knows that the operating system they use has some very interesting features. For example, if you want to create a folder with the name con in the usual way, it will fail. By virtue of human curiosity, almost everyone who hears about this for the first time will certainly try to try their luck, but without achieving a result, they will be humble. And yet, we will not give up and try to find out why it is impossible to create a con folder in Windows.
Fans of legends and tales offer the next version of why the con folder cannot be created. Bill Gates, the first person whose image pops up at the mention of Microsoft and the Windows operating system, one of the richest people in the world, seemed to be a rather strange boy in school years. He was madly in love with mathematics and programming and left without the slightest attention “unnecessary”, uninteresting subjects. Parents were worried about this strange behavior of their son, and classmates laughed at him and teased. One of the offensive words that Bill was called was the word con, which means "nerd" or "nerd." Many of those who were persecuted by classmates at school understand how they want to grow up quickly, to acquire the most significant status possible, thereby proving to the offenders how wrong they were. The version that the folder with the name con in Windows does not want to be created just because Bill Gates was offended by classmates, of course, has the right to exist, but causes a lot of doubts. There must be some more reasonable argument. In addition, Gates even without this has already proved to all school detractors that a person known to the whole world can grow out of a botanist.
In fact, wondering why the con folder cannot be created, one should turn to the sources. The MS-DOS system was released in 1981. From that moment until 2000, when product development ceased, eight versions were released. Thanks to this operating system, which was the main Microsoft product at that time, the company was able to develop into the largest corporation. In MS-DOS, as add-ons for which Windows first appeared, the word “con” was important: this name was reserved by the system for input / output devices. Modern Windows still perceives it as the name of an existing system folder. By the way, con is not the only name that cannot be assigned to a folder in Windows. A similar situation exists with the words nul, aux, lpt, prn and others. These names have also been reserved in MS-DOS for certain functions. For example, the word nul is interpreted by the system as "nothing." This is why you cannot create a con folder.
Working with any operating system, gradually learning more and delving into all its features and secrets, you can find a lot of interesting things for yourself. And if, having discovered some peculiarity, it is not too lazy to dig deeper and look for information on the topic, you can significantly expand your horizons. Whether to believe the bikes or accept a more reasonable explanation is a personal matter for each user. But why not believe the bike? After all, no matter how famous a person is, no matter how confident he seems, somewhere deep down he can remain a quiet nerd, disappearing for hours in a computer classroom and spending all his free time on his favorite pastime.