You can not use any of the following: \ / : * ? " < > |
Windows 95 supported file names up to 255 characters in length.
In DOS, 8 characters.In Windows, 254 characters.
260 characters
See this URL for some discussion of Windows file names: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx
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Windows 2000
A filename in windows XP can have up to 255 characters.
When you get a message that says, 'Windows cannot access the specified device path file,' this means that an error has occurred which has corrupted the file and made it inaccessible.
Any file name can not contain /, \, *, ?, :, |, ", < or >..
The maximum length of a directory name or file name is affected by the location itself.The maximum length of the path to a file on a modern Operating System is 255 characters.
No. The 3 character extension is a limitation of MS-DOS. Versions of Windows from Windows 95 and later support an arbitrary number of characters for a file extension, as long as the total filename length is 255 or less characters.
cannot exceed 260 characters