Sharepoint file name restrictions

Hi
Is there any way in Sharepoint 2010 to get it to allow filenames beginning with "." and/or containing the "_" and "&" character within a document library?
Any solution welcome except renaming all documents containing such characters as this is not really an option as this is an enterprise wide issue for 3,000 users. I do find it frustrating in 2013 that we seem to be still limited by MS DOS file naming
convention.

No, there is code within SharePoint that specifically checks for, and rejects these characters. It cannot be overridden.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905231
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