Sunday, September 1, 2013

How to create a folder which cant be deleted or renamed

This is a Simple trick on creating a folder  which cant be renamed or deleted in windows Operating System which most of them may not be aware of.Creating a folder with reserved words like aux, con, lpt1, lp2,... com1, com2,... nul,... is not allowed in windows operating system directly,but we can do it from Command prompt.





Go to start menu and open Run.
* Type cmd and click enter in Run to open Command Prompt.
Choose D: or E: or any Drive other than the drive where windows is installed as windows doesn`t allow to create such folders in Root Directory.
Type D: or E: and press Enter in cmd
Type md aux\ and Press Enter
You can use any of the above reserved words instead of aux in the above command
Now you will be able to see the folder with name aux created in your Directory.
Try Deleting or renaming the folder and you will be warned by the windows.  Big Grin


Next question will be on can we not delete the folder ? the answer is yes and can be done with command Prompt Wink




How to Delete the aux Folder ?

Open Command Prompt again (if closed Tongue Wink
Type D: or E: ( on the directory which you just created) and press Enter
Type rd aux\ and press Enter
Now look into the Directory and the folder will be vanished Smile

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