ONE WINDOWS MAGIC TRICK: -
Nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON” (without Quotes).
TRY IT NOW, IT WILL NOT CREATE ” CON ” FOLDER Actually CON is one of system reserved words, that's why it cant create CON Folder!!!
Interesting Facts about COMPUTERS Today, almost all of our work is done by some or the other computing machine. Computers are enhancing the technological growth with a rapid speed. The more we know about this super machine, is less. Knowing about few of the interesting computer facts can be fun.
Mentioned below are few of the little known computer facts:-
1. There are approximately 6,000 new computer viruses released every month.
2. Doug Engelbart, invented the first computer mouse in the year 1964 which was made up of wood!
3. It is believed that the first computer virus released in the world was a boot sector virus, which was created in the year 1986 by Farooq Alvi brothers. It was designed by them to protect their research work.
4. A normal human being blinks 20 times in a minute, whereas a computer user blinks only 7 times a minute!
5. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
6. While it took the radio 38 years and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
7. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
8. On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
9. The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.
10. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
11. The house of Bill Gates was designed using a Macintosh computer.
12. The group of 12 engineers who designed IBM PC was called "The Dirty Dozen".
13. One of the world's leading computer and computer peripheral manufacturer Hewlett Packard was first started in a garage at Palo Alto in the year 1939.
14. On eBay, there is an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
15. Early hard drives in Personal Computers held 20 MB, or 20 Megabytes, and cost about $800. By comparison, an $8 flash drive holds 2 GB, or 2 Gigabytes. That's a 100-fold decrease in price and a 100-fold increase in capacity.
16. The computer mouse, the windowing GUI, laser printing, and the network card were all developed at one company; Xerox in Palo Alto, California.
17. The computer in your cell phone has more processing power than all the computers in the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander that put 2 men on the moon.
18. 'Crash Course' is another name for Microsoft Windows tutorials.
19. Although we normally think of computers as the ones we use in our everyday lives to surf the web, write documents etc, small computers are also embedded into other things such as mobile phones, toys, microwaves and MP3 players. We use computers all the time, often without even knowing it!
20. Almost all computer users must know how destructive a virus can be. But then, it would be interesting to know that a virus cannot corrupt your PC on its own. It corrupts your system only when you activate it by either downloading infected files from the Internet or by sharing these infected files.
And also I have Provided additional information about regarding these Keywords:
We cannot create a folder named any of these keywords:
CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.
These keywords are used by Windows internally and are reserved Keywords.
i) CON was used for CONSOLE,
ii) PRN for PRINTER,
iii) AUX for AUXILIARY DEVICE,
iv) LPT’s for PARALLEL PORTS
Microsoft has taken this initiative to avoid any conflict that may arise as a result of using these keywords.
We can create a folder named CON, AUX or any other reserved keyword, there is an evil way to achieve this, but its definitely not advised, as this can create ambiguity. We can create the folder with these names by following steps below:
1. Open the command prompt on your system.
2. When the command prompt opens, type md \\.\\”\CON”3. Hit Enter
Now you’ll have a folder named CON on your desktop, now follow the same step for all the other keywords. But you can’t able to delete the created folder. It can be done using following step:
1. Open the command prompt again.
2. When the command prompt opens, type rd \\.\\”\CON”3. Hit Enter
S.G.Godwin Dinesh, MCA
Sr.System Administrator
