@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
Post #4296110
2026-07-23 16:31 UTC
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.
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@taiyang@lemmy.world 2026-07-23 16:53
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.