For compatibility with earlier 16-bit DOS and Windows 3.1 applications, Windows 95/98 created an 8.3 short name that was maintained alongside the long name. That compatibility was dropped in Windows ...

Short file names, all lower case, hyphens between words (e.g., illustration-curriculum.pdf). No spaces, periods, underscores, or special characters—only the file extension, such as .pdf or .jpg, ...

If your business works with and shares numerous files, copying file names can save a lot of time. Typing a file name is easy when the name is short, but long, complex names with special characters are ...

File names in Windows that are up to 255 characters in length. Long file names include spaces and special characters except for slashes, colons, asterisks, open/close brackets, exclamation points and ...