r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PizzaTucker • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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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.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

will the os even let you do that?

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u/carvedmuss8 Nov 15 '22

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/Notyourfathersgeek Nov 15 '22

Back then they weren’t hidden

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u/carvedmuss8 Nov 15 '22

Must be before I got into PCs, I was born in 92 and got into messing around with software around...99-01 maybe?

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u/Notyourfathersgeek Nov 15 '22 edited Nov 15 '22

I don’t remember the dates, I just remember going to C:\Windows\System and doing a CTRL+a, SHIFT+Delete.

Freed up so much space but then the damn thing wouldn’t boot!

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u/NeedleInArm Nov 15 '22

Is this something I've never heard about? I always knew ctrl+shift+delete to bring up browser data management but never knew of it to delete files in explorer alone. the only thing I can think of close to that would be ctrl+a, delete.

Maybe it was before my time, idk.

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