What Happens If You Delete System32?
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2018-05-06
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886 words · ~4 min read
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morning believe me while my coffee wrapper will damage to your system no
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more tech money no more over lush no more all my apology horses odds are
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pretty good that you've seen a message like that if you've ever tried to delete
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a file that Windows wants to cling to like you cling to that picture of your
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ex especially if said file is inside the
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system32 folder but what exactly about
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it is so gosh darn important that makes Windows as cagey and nervous as an
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initech employee during a performance review and why do internet trolls advise
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deleting it let's start with the first bit many of the files inside system 32
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take the form of dynamic link libraries or dll's these files contain code and
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data that can be accessed and shared by many programs including Windows itself
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the DLL is inside the system32 folder enable functionality from control panel
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options to error checking system updates
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streaming media support encryption services audio and video playback
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DirectX rendering and even the Windows
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interface itself I mean it wouldn't be very easy to use Windows if you couldn't
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even freakin see what you were doing system32 also includes most of your
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drivers which you can learn more about up here as well as elements of the
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Windows kernel the fundamental code that interfaces Windows with your hardware
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allowing it to well work what that means
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is that many of these files simply can't be deleted after you boot into Windows
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since they've already been loaded into memory but even deleting other system32
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files will probably end up breaking a number of obvious things on your system
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and result in your computer refusing to boot the next time you try to turn it on
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meaning you'll end up having to run some system recovery of some sort to have any
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chance of getting it back up and running without a full reformat so this all
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sounds like stuff you obviously wouldn't want to get rid of so why is anyone
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trying to do it well not surprisingly many non computer savvy folks have no
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idea what the system 32 folder is at all leading to some
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enterprising trolls spreading a meme that deleting system 32 will make your
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you to run twice as fast this particular piece of memory has been
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making its rounds on the internet since at least the early 2000s but the way
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it's usually presented still fools many computer novices typically there will be
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a bit of copypasta describing system32 as a folder that Microsoft uses to
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intentionally hobble your computer's performance as part of some conspiracy
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to get you to go by PC tune-up software
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or something or even claiming the system32 is just straight-up malware
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then using step-by-step instructions that are designed to look like more
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credible system tuning tips directing users to enter one or two lines on a
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command prompt to delete the folder to
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be clear there are many people on the web that offer honest advice about how
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to speed up a slow computer but in this particular case it's a giant hoax so the
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moral the story is don't delete system32 and don't take computer maintenance
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other than that I'll see you next time