| Kawa |
Posted on 20-01-24, 00:06 in FUCK hsts
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 Post: #461 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
I was not aware files that are in use could be deleted quite so easily. And let's not get into access control, ownership... If it wasn't so late for me and my laptop was still running, I'd try to delete system32 from my Win10 VM just to see if it'd let me. |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-01-24, 10:46 in FUCK hsts (revision 1)
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Post: #462 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
You don't get to specifically call out "even system32" and then argue when I cast doubt on deleting folders on specifically Windows systems. That's just bad form. Edit: I do remember doing it in a VM, and I recall they let me do it. I mean why else would the 'delete system32' meme be a thing? I have several Windows VMs, and I just tried it on the Win10 one. I have very fresh memories, short term even, of starting with 4288 files inside System32 (not counting the folders), and ending with 4274 and an apparently no less stable system on reboot. It wouldn't even begin to delete anything when I selected System32 itself, the very first file found being in use or TrustedInstaller's, and not giving me a "skip" option. I have no Win7 VM, that's my actual system, but I did just confirm that it too has a TrustedInstaller, and this random System32 file can't be altered by anyone but TrustedInstaller, so it'd likely be about as effective to try it on the other Windows still in use by regular people as it is on 10. |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-01-24, 11:17 in FUCK hsts
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Post: #463 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
Disabling UAC does not change file permissions, if that's what you were implying. |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-01-24, 13:02 in FUCK hsts
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Post: #464 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
I just went through all the Windows VMs I have, in descending order of release, to find the first one that lets you delete System32. It's Windows 98. Which barely uses System32 — it uses System. You can't just select the System folder and delete that either, it'll say that's a system folder that Windows requires to run. You can only accept that. So I go into the folder itself and find 1087 files there, not counting more folders. I can delete all but 98 of them (they're in use), and then Windows 98 still runs but won't boot. The "delete system32" meme, according to KYM's Google Trends insert, started in 2004, and with Windows 2000. Indeed, Windows 2000 also doesn't let you simply select and delete the folder just like Win98 doesn't let you delete the system folder. But it gets better: besides the files it can't delete because they're in use, Windows 2000 put back almost everything I deleted. When I restarted, the only immediately obvious difference was that the startup sound was "ting" instead of the normal one. XP does the same, but with more hurdles to get there and see the files. |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-01-24, 20:24 in FUCK hsts
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Post: #465 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
Posted by tomman... I considered that possibility when I saw one of the KYM examples was a batch file but dismissed it. Please hold. |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-01-24, 21:15 in FUCK hsts
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Post: #466 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
Elevated CMD start in System32 which makes it a bit easier. So I start one up in my Win10 VM and type "del *.*", confirm... and get pages upon pages of "Access denied". So yeah, I'm thinking it played by the same rules. Posted by funkyassIf it has no way of setting permissions and ownership on the filesystem level, it'd have to make do with what 2000 did: refuse to touch the System32 folder itself, and put everything back that you manage to delete. |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-02-04, 18:48 in Youtube
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Post: #467 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
Like I reported on Discord: I got the warning banner, I clicked it, I clicked the big button, and I got the old YT still, with the same damn banner. Top job, folks. |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-02-04, 19:41 in Youtube (revision 1)
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Post: #468 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
Snap. I forgot about those. Let me check again. Edit: yup, I did have one of those. |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-02-04, 20:07 in Youtube
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Post: #469 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
It's a bit hard for me to properly gauge how it is because I'm rendering a bunch of things and that slows down the rest, but the most obvious thing is that everything's so much bigger all of a sudden. Very... intended to be touch-friendly, perhaps? |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-02-06, 09:27 in TAS (tool-assisted speedruns)
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Post: #470 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
* ABXD quirk maybe even? |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-02-18, 21:15 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #471 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
Posted by Nicholas SteelAnd you're not helping. |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-02-24, 08:58 in Using 512x448 resolution on SNES modes 5 and 6
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Post: #472 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
"Programming" will do. |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-02-27, 09:22 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #473 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
Posted by ndiddyDon't be silly. It's three files per table involved. |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-03-09, 19:43 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #474 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
A lie however, is never a fact. And that's a fact, Jack. |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-03-13, 11:10 in What are you listening to right now?
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Post: #475 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
Posted by kode54Y'know what? This bops. |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-03-21, 23:57 in COVID-19 (or why 2020 will SUCK for a lifetime)
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Post: #476 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
Whoops? https://www.dualshockers.com/gamestop-closed-pennsylvania-coronavirus/ |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-03-27, 22:08 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Post: #477 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
Where's the feature request though? |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-03-27, 22:36 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Post: #478 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
Posted by tommanDENIED |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-03-27, 23:49 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Post: #479 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
Posted by CaptainJistuce🍒 DOUBLE DENIED |
| Kawa |
Posted on 20-04-05, 16:50 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Post: #480 of 598 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 108 days Last view: 6 hours |
It's both. |
