Installing Windows to con

Thanks to FlyTech Videos and Doovleed for giving me the idea!

Today I am going to show you what happens if you install Windows to the infamous "con" folder. The results are pretty unexpected!

*Timestamps:*
0:00 - Intro
0:14 - Preparation
0:43 - Installing Windows to con
1:32 - Perfectly working Windows
5:57 - Outro

Hope you have a great day!

#endermanch #experiments #windows

[cheetopuff]

ERROR: Critical error
the most descriptive error so far

[MikuAuahDark]

Tom Scott: This is why you can't name a file or folder "con"
Enderman: Hold my Command Prompt

[cscscscss]

Ah yes, my favourite error, *ERROR: Critical error*

[axemodeus]

*Teacher:* Hey, there's something wrong in your test.
*Me:* Oh no, what is it?
*Teacher:* An error.
*Me:* What error?
*Teacher:* _ERROR: CRITICAL ERROR_

[falxie_]

I think it's crazy how much legacy stuff is in Windows

[ronture]

ERROR: Critical error

*insert obama nominating obama meme here*

[oneupgaming]

One of my most appreciated errors: ERROR: Critical error

[mohammadarafath]

Next time on Enderman: Installing windows to .. (upper directory)

[JanTheAnnoying]

Enderman: *E R R O R: C R I T I C A L E R R O R*
hackers: hmm, Nice way to use trolls

[leonardturlej]

Me: Watch how to update windows.
*YouTube recomendation:*

[justvovka]

Bill in 1990 : Its interesting, what people can do with their computers after 30 years!
Enderman : *installing windows to folder con*

[leumasme]

Yes, let me just install Windows to my Printer Output.

[xvxv]

1966:in the future we will have flying cars!!
2020:Installing windows to con
1966: ...

[Rockastorm]

Everyone: you can't name a file con
Enderman: haha cmd goes brrrr

[unusedaccount]

Thanks for making great videos Enderman! They are educational and awesome.

[HappySlappyFace]

you always manage to impress and suprise me, good work man. that is very interesting

[inrusane_n]

It is very interesting to see how windows supports not being in the usual folder. I love this vid!

[flixtwif]

i tested this a bit more
most restricted names, aux, prn, etc work the same way as con. the one exception i found was "nul" which completely bugs out explorer and you cant really save anything to the hard disk. It will give you an "incorrect function" error if you try to open the "nul" folder or any other folders inside nul (e.g C:\nul\windows). command prompt still cannot read the nul folder, but can read other folders inside and still open files.
You are actually able to log into windows, but it is broken. You have to enable to built-in "Administrator" account through command prompt, thats the only way I could find to log in. After you log in it will give you a message saying you were redirected to a temporary profile, but you have the SYSTEM desktop and the default folder you save to is However it says you are logged in as Administrator in explorer and when you use the "whoami" command in cmd. Basically a weird mix of the Administrator and SYSTEM users. You get a unique theme which looks quite cool whilst in this user.

[STCatchMeTRACjRo]

I have a guess what it still runs.
Windows doesn't care as its a normal folder and windows creates the DOS device mappings, that includes CON. You can find this in the registry entry
Manager\DOS Devices'.
It means CON is not reserved name until certain subsystem reserves it. That's my guess why it boots as its a simple folder, not some special virtual folder. And certain apps when they call the CON they call the DOS one and certain ones would do the normal path calling, would explain why some work and some dont. Just my guess.

[minipsitigrivideos]

When you speak french the title has a slightly different sense