I am having issues with people that been saving files like word or excel with special characters.

Running windows 2000 sp3 and office 2000 sp3 or 4.

If you open notepad even ...you can save the file like ex: @%$@#$%.txt or $$% $$.doc

Is there a way to remove permission to do that? for me that is not good and it cause problems during backups.

Is there a setting in windows 2000 to have stop ?

Thank you

As far as I know, you cannot control the characters which software uses to save files.

How are those files creating issues with your backup?

When you have a file by the name of ##&*.doc, that a problem. Specially when it come by sending over by email or making backups. Backup will fail cause of the special characters causing certain conflicts.

In windows xp naming files with special characters is not permitted.

Since windows 2000 allowed, I was wondering if there was a certain settings in security policy or in the registry.

Windows XP and 2003 allow the same characters in file names as Windows 2000. The only characters you can't use in a file name are \ / | < > : ? * and ". If your backup software doesn't backup files with any other characters then it's time to look for another backup solution because those are allowed characters in files. Or see if the software manufacturer has a patch for the issue.