can't create certain filenames..

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Thomas Neumayer

Hi, i just wanted to create an autorun.inf-File for a selfassemblied cd.
Windows doesn't let me name a file autorun.inf. As soon as i want to
rename a file to that, or save a notepad-file with that name i get an
"Access denied" errormessage.

Is that behaviour a security-fix or modifieable thru the registry?

regards,
 
Thomas Neumayer said:
Hi, i just wanted to create an autorun.inf-File for a selfassemblied cd.
Windows doesn't let me name a file autorun.inf. As soon as i want to
rename a file to that, or save a notepad-file with that name i get an
"Access denied" errormessage.

Is that behaviour a security-fix or modifieable thru the registry?

regards,
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That's probably because the file already exists and is possibly hidden.
 
That's probably because the file already exists and is possibly hidden.
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no way, or do you think every newly created folder contains a
'autorun.inf' and every combination of *.pif files that you can think of?

regards,
 
Thomas Neumayer said:
no way, or do you think every newly created folder contains a
'autorun.inf' and every combination of *.pif files that you can think of?

regards,
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No, it does not, but then one must never make any assumptions
when trouble-shooting. In your case I would open a Command
Prompt and run the following commands:

cd /d "d:\SomeFolder" (enter correct drive & folder!)
attrib *.inf
attrib *.pif
echo. > autorun.inf
echo. > test.pif
echo. > test.txt

The results should be interesting.
 
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