What keyboard characters are not valid for a Windows XP filename?
This has come up several times over the years during my programming tasks when I have tried to automatically generate a filename based on some collection of data. It seems a good time to document this relatively simple question for my future reference as well as yours.
The keyboard characters that cannot be used in a Windows XP filename are:
* Asterisk
Pipe (vertical bar)
\ Back slash
/ Forward slash
: Colon
" Quote
< Less Than
> Greater Than
? Question mark
Hope that helps!
Joe Kunk