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Will Windows even let you do that?
I don't think so anymore. You could probably do some damage if you clicked through the hundred warnings but I don't think you can remove the whole directory anymore.
Windows has a secret "System" user which owns most if not all if that, and permissions are now set up such that not even Administrator can touch it. From what I understand those are now hardcoded into the system.
They're not hardcoded, you can take ownership of the files with commands (
takeownandicacls). As some other user already mentioned, there are ways to start a command prompt as the SYSTEM user. Windows will still not let you delete them however, because most of them are being used by processes.God I hate that System user. Somehow, back when I used Windows, it granted System the ownership of a bunch of folders in my D: that even as an admin I couldn't delete-- I think because of Microsoft store?
It wasn't until I started playing with Linux (Manjaro at the time) that I was able to clean it up. Something like 600gb of game files, lol.
fuck, i wish i knew all this in highschool
There are some super homophobic dudes i would've put gay porn on their desktop and in their documents then made it only system owned with deny delete.
Why did you have access to their desktops? And surely you could have come up with some other methods to fuck with them if you had access to their desktops
You can connect into the system as system and then do all the horrible things. It's not well publicized because they don't want you breaking stuff.
You certainly can't delete them all but its possible to rename everything and delete them that way but If I recall windows would likely generate new versions very quickly after some very weird error messages and maybe a restart.
I have a better solution.
The system user is part of Dos like root is part of Unix. I think what you're referring to is how the whole OS runs in a virtualization layer because Microsoft doesn't trust its own kernel. This also disallows a lot of folders from being deleted or modified. I'm not sure if system32 is included.