How to Create a Folder in your PC

How to Create a Folder in your PC:

This article will help you to create your own folders in your PC

Way 1:

Open the path where you want to create a folder, here I am creating a new folder on my desktop

Right click on desktop, go to New->Folder

A folder will be created as shown below

Rename the folder with any name 

And click on enter, your folder is created with a given name

 Way 2: you can also create a folder using command prompt

Below steps will help you to create a new folder in your system using command prompt

Step 1: Open your command prompt (Go start-> type cmd ->click on enter)

Step 2: By using MKDIR (or) MD commands your can create new folder in your system

Syntax:

C :\> makdir [Path Name to create a folder]\[folder name]

Ex : Here I am creating a folder(folder name : how2doit)  in my desktop 

Click on enter 

Go to your desktop check for how2doit folder

Syntax 2: Creating a folder using MD command

C :\> md [Path Name to create a folder]\[folder name] 

Go to your desktop check for how2doit1 folder

Note : By using WAY1 we can't create a folders with below names

Con

Prn

Nul

Aux

Com1

Com2

Com3

Com4

Com5

Com6

Com7

Com8

Com9

Lpt1

Lpt2

Lpt3

Lpt4

Lpt5

Lpt6

Lpt7

Lpt8

Lpt9

If you try to create a folder with above names using WAY 1 you will get an error message like "The specified device name is invalid"

We can create folder with above name using command prompts

Note: we can't create and delete folder with above names directly by using command prompt only we can create a folder with above names 

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How to delete con/auf/prn/nul Folders

How to delete con/auf/prn/nul Folders:

In windows it is not possible to delete a folder having the following names

Con

Prn

Nul

Aux

Com1

Com2

Com3

Com4

Com5

Com6

Com7

Com8

Com9

Lpt1

Lpt2

Lpt3

Lpt4

Lpt5

Lpt6

Lpt7

Lpt8

Lpt9

If you try to delete a folder with above names you will get a message like "Item Not Found"

Solution for the above problem is deleting a folders using command prompt

Step 1: Open your command prompt (Go start-> type cmd ->click on enter)

Step 2: By using RMDIR (or) RD commands your can delete folder in your computer

Syntax 1: Deleting a con/auf/com1.etc  folder using RMDIR command

C:/>rmdir \\.\[Path Name to create a folder]\[folder name]

Syntax 2: Deleting a con/auf/com1.etc folder using RD command

C:/>rd \\.\[Path Name to create a folder]\[folder name]

Note: By using command prompt we can delete any folder

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How to create a con,auf,prn,nul Folders Using Command Prompt

How to create a con/auf/prn/nul Folders Using Command Prompt:

In windows it is not possible to create a folder with the following names

Con

Prn

Nul

Aux

Com1

Com2

Com3

Com4

Com5

Com6

Com7

Com8

Com9

Lpt1

Lpt2

Lpt3

Lpt4

Lpt5

Lpt6

Lpt7

Lpt8

Lpt9

If you try to create a folder with above names you will get an error message like "The specified device name is invalid"

Reason: Above all are the reserved keywords used by DOS, if you try to create a folder with above names there will be an ambiguity problem

Solution for the above problem is creating a folders using command prompt

Step 1: Open your command prompt (Go start-> type cmd ->click on enter)

Step 2: By using MKDIR (or) MD commands your can create new folder in your computer

Syntax 1: Creating a con/auf/com1.etc  folder using MKDIR command

C:/>mkdir \\.\[Path Name to create a folder]\[folder name]

Go to your desktop check for con folder

Syntax 2: Creating a con/auf/com1.etc folder using MD command

C:/>md \\.\[Path Name to create a folder]\[folder name]

Go to your desktop check for prn folder

Note: By using command prompt we can create a folder with any name

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How to Create a Folder Using Command Prompt

How to Create a Folder Using Command Prompt:

This article will help you to create a folder/directory using command prompt

Step 1: Open your command prompt (Go start-> type cmd ->click on enter)

Step 2: By using MKDIR (or) MD commands your can create new folder in your system

Syntax 1: Creating a folder using MKDIR command

C :\> makdir [Path Name to create a folder]\[folder name]

Ex : Here I am creating a folder(folder name : how2doit)  in my desktop

Click on enter

Go to your desktop check for how2doit folder

Syntax 2: Creating a folder using MD command

C :\> md [Path Name to create a folder]\[folder name]

Go to your desktop check for how2doit1 folder

Note: By using command prompt we can create a folder with any name

Enjoy :)

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How to Create a Shutdown Shortcut in Windows

How to Create a Shutdown Shortcut in Windows:

If you want to shut down your computer every time we are going to start and selecting shut down button to shut down your computer, instead of this we can create shut down, restart, log off shot cuts in desktop

This article will help to create a shortcut shut down button in your windows

Step 1:  Right click on your desktop, choose new ->shortcut

Step 2:  Type shutdown.exe -s in text filed click on Next

Step 3: Enter any name for shortcut and click on Finish

One shortcut folder has created as shown below

If you want to shut down your system double click on that shortcut, if you want to change the Icon as Shut Down symbol, right click the short cut and select properties

Click on Change Icon button

 You will get a message as shown below click on OK

Select an appropriate icon from list of the icons and click on OK

Click on Ok

See the short cut icon

If double click on that it will shut down your system

Same way if you want you can create shortcuts for restart and log off also

•   If you want to create a shortcut for restart Type shutdown.exe -r in shortcut text field at step 2
•   If you want to create a shortcut for log off Type shutdown.exe -l in shortcut text field at step 2
•   If you want to create a shortcut to shut down your computer after a specific time Type shutdown.exe  -s -t 200 in shortcut text field at step 2
•   If you want to create a shortcut to display a custom message before shut down a system Type shutdown.exe -s -t 300 -c "Bye I am going to sleep" in shortcut text field at step 2
•   If you want to create a shortcut to terminate already scheduled shutdown Type shutdown.exe -a in shortcut text field at step 2

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