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<body><div style="height: 789px;" id="contentArea"><div style="height: 782px;" id="mainRow"><div class="primaryTable"><table class="primaryTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="primaryMainColumn"><div id="mainColumn"><div id="kb" class="kb"><div id="default" class="default"><!-- - -KB 3 start- - --><a name="toc"></a><h1 class="title">How to Remove Files with Reserved Names in Windows XP</h1><div class="articleProperty"><table><tbody><tr><td class="label">Article ID</td><td class="text">:</td><td class="text">315226</td></tr><tr><td class="label">Last Review</td><td class="text">:</td><td class="text">September 26, 2003</td></tr><tr><td class="label">Revision</td><td class="text">:</td><td class="text">2.0</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="notice">This article was previously published under Q315226</div><div class="notice">For a Microsoft Windows 2000 version of this article, see <a class="KBlink" href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/120716/EN-US/">120716</a>.
<br></div><div class="toc"><h5>On this Page</h5><table class="tallTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="image"><a href="#kb1"><img src="Img/downArrow.gif" alt="SUMMARY" align="middle"></a></td><td class="text" colspan="2"><a href="#kb1">SUMMARY</a></td></tr><tr><td class="image"><a href="#kb2"><img src="Img/downArrow.gif" alt="MORE INFORMATION" align="middle"></a></td><td class="text" colspan="2"><a href="#kb2">MORE INFORMATION</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="section"><h2 class="subTitle"><a name="kb1">SUMMARY</a></h2><div class="sbody">
Because applications control the policy for creating files in Windows,
files sometimes are created with illegal or reserved names, such as
LPT1 or PRN. This article explains how to delete such files by using
the standard user interface.
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You must be logged on locally to the Windows-based computer to delete these files.
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If the file was created on a file allocation table (FAT) partition, you
may be able to delete the file under MS-DOS by using standard command line
utilities (such as DEL) with wildcard (*) characters, for example:
<div class="indent"><b>DEL PR?.*</b><br><br>
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DEL LPT?.*</b></div>These commands do not work on an NTFS
file system partition. For this case another option would be to use a
syntax that bypasses the normal reserved-word checks altogether. You
may be able to delete any file by using a command like this: <div class="indent"><span class="userInput">DEL \\.\<var>drive letter</var>:\<i>path</i>\<var>file name</var></span></div>
For example:
<div class="indent"><span class="userInput">DEL \\.\c:\<var>somedir</var>\aux</span></div>
If the name in the file system appears as a directory, you may be able to
delete any directory by using a command like this:
<div class="indent"><b>RD \\.\<var>drive letter</var>:\<var>path</var>\<var>directory name</var></b></div>
For example:
<div class="indent"><b>RD \\.\c:\<var>somedir</var>\aux</b></div></div></div><div class="appliesTo"><hr><h5>APPLIES TO</h5><table class="list" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="bullet">•</td><td class="text">Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition</td></tr><tr><td class="bullet">•</td><td class="text">Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="topOfPage"><table><tbody><tr><td class="image"><a href="#toc"><img src="Img/upArrow.gif" alt="Top of Page" align="middle"></a></td><td class="text"><a href="#toc">Top of Page</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="keywords"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr><td class="header"><h5>Keywords: </h5></td><td class="text">kbinfo kbusage KB315226 </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="topOfPage"><table><tbody><tr><td class="image"><a href="#toc"><img src="Img/upArrow.gif" alt="Top of Page" align="middle"></a></td><td class="text"><a href="#toc">Top of Page</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class="disclaimer"><div class="text"></div></div><!-- - -KB 3 end- - --></div></div></div>
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