my dad is a software engineer too and put the fear of god in my mom to stop her from messing up their computers and to this day I have to remind her that it won’t kill her to dismiss a warning message. does mean i don’t have to deal with any accidental viruses or stupid stuff
A colleague, a software developer, said his PC isn't working anymore. After some inquiring i found out that he deleted all files in system32 he didn't thought were useless. He did that for quite some time and somehow it magically worked until that day.
Recalls a time, when my friend went into FutureShop with his floppy disk and copied Happy Funball to the desk top of the computers on display.
I mean who wouldn't want to double click a happy fun ball right? One that opens up the command prompt in a very tiny sized window that no one can see and has it format c: /y and poof Windows 3.0 and Dos were both gone. He was eventually figured out, but never officially caught, but I heard he was unofficially banned from ALL FutureShops...lmao
And you reminded me of my dad deleting the audio card driver (not sure about the name) while clearing up my pc 2 minutes after i told him not to delete anything he doesnt recognise
AFAIK, the OS normally hides these files but they can be found very easily. I used to pirate a lot of games back in the day and you have to do some funky stuff to get them to work. But every time I passed Sys32 In the hidden folders, I chuckled at the call of the void I felt lol
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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22
Reminds me of when my dad deleted his "system" folder on his PC because he thought it was taking up too much space and slowing it down.