My work laptop doesn't allow me to do this. Shall I open a ticket to IT support?
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2026
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Yes, they'll be thrilled! They love this kind of challenges, they call them 'absolute fucking dumbass tickets' - satirically of course. They like me.
Don't delete it, that'll fuck up your computer. Instead rename it to System64 so you can make full use of all 64 bits your computer has. I tried any and my pc is like 5x times faster.
Only 5x? Shouldn't it be 32x?
why the fuck system32 is 64bits and syswow64 is 32bits, i hate microsoft
Too many hard coded absolute references to fix now.
Because 16 bit reasons. Also a lot of Windows API is called Win32 regardless of the used bits, as it was the API created for Windows 95 and NT 4.0 originally, with some things added onto it later, and even some kind of deprecated parts
"4GB RAM is enough for anyone!"
- hardware manufacturers, 2026
Times have changed, its now the corpos dictating what you should be happy with.
This is also a reminder that Windows and the NT kernel have been so neglected and underdeveloped that it's a technical house of cards.
Blame Microsoft for firing their NT kernel team and QA teams in the Windows 9 era to instead automate testing and development.
In fact, if Europe could just generalise and open source the NT kernel, Windows could actually be usable again.
If I were to take the first part seriously, the kernel is actually the thing that's holding up the best out of everything nowadays
Plese don't be giving the EU ideas to help MicroSlop. Let them die please
if Europe could just generalise and open source the NT kernel, Windows could actually be usable again.
I guess it would be useful just for running software that only works on Windows but I can't think of any other actual benefits to NT when compared to any Unix/Unix-like kernel
It could make the development of Wine easier i guess?
How'd you suppose Europe would open-source one very very commercial software? It's practically like asking McDonalds to pay you for eating their burgers.
You're joking right? Because that's just nonsense.
It is a bunch of nonsense, but all of it true.
My head hurts.
That's the marketing taking it's toll.
2 days in the Faraday cage will sort you out.
How's the wifi in there?
Why did Windows name it with 32? Always confused by that
That folder (or rather whatever serves its purpose) has been around since the beginning, so all the 16-bit applications at the time would look for OS libraries in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\.
Then 32-bit comes along, and you can't exactly drop 2 files with the same name in the same folder, so the 32-bit ones got put in their own named folder.
Then 64-bit comes along, and it turns out way too many applications hardcoded the System32 path to change it, so they kept the name the same and inserted a filesystem redirection for legacy 32-bit apps so when they try to read from System32 the kernel redirects that to SysWoW64.
SystemWorldOfWarcraft64
Thank you
I use 16 bits that's enough
Blast processing.
A true FAR PASCAL enjoyer, I see.
void far ahhhhh
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 (takeown and icacls). 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.
The system user is part of Dos like root is part of Unix. I don't think DOS supported multiple users, nor some kind of ACL. The system user is only part of Windows, after 98 I think.
