There is a system folder that will be familiar to any user of Windows. Microsoft introduced System32 with Windows 2000the version before Windows XP of your operating system. This is one of the most important system folders of any Windows version since then, since it contains libraries DLLfiles of the Windows registration and critical executables for the system. There are, among other Windows components, the Task Managerhe Performance monitor and the TASK PROGRAMMER. Now, what happens if you eliminate that folder? Not good, as expected, but it is the test they wanted to do in the specialized environment Xda-Developers.
Microsoft doesn’t make it easy to eliminate System32
The first thing they point out is to delete System32which is in the Board of Directors C: Windows System32It is not easy. Windows protects that folder against an error that the user can make and, trying to eliminate it, prevents it and shows you the message ‘access to the denied folder’. So they had to try other methods.
Starting session like administratorIt was also not possible to remove the full folder. So they decided to try to delete the content, file to file, from the File explorer. Here he began to progress in the task, even having to click on multiple warning messages for it. In any case, There were still many that was not possible to eliminate in this way.
More success had to resort to the command line with Windows Powershell. Through this console interface, designed for use by system administrators, they managed to erase all the files and subfolders of the board System32. And that’s when Windows began to crumble.
Damage
Error messages began to appear and the Start menuhe Task Managerthe dialog box Executehe Terminal and other integrated Windows functions stopped working. The third -party programs, although they could start, also did not work properly. And many documents and files were unrecoverable.
At this point, they considered trying to Restore the installation with the advanced options that Windows offers repairbut the deletion of System32 I had also affected them and Now they were useless. Finally, Windows stopped working completely and it was impossible to start it.
The only solution, reinstall Windows from scratch
Delete System32 He had killed the system completely. And the only option was to make a Windows reinstallation from scratcherasing all of the above with the consequent loss of data. The experiment, although curious, is not advisable to repeat it at home.