At 9/20/09 04:54 PM, ThoseSneakyFrench wrote:
What people don't seem to get is, this system32 stuff isn't really dangerous. If you try to delete system files, you will get a message similar to below. Windows won't let you delete system files under normal conditions.
This is something else I was thinking about. Exactly how easy is it to actually do this? For obvious reasons, I've never tried it, but I always thought that a computer couldn't delete files that were in use by the operating system. Since system32 basically IS the operating system, wouldn't that mean it'd always be in use, and therefore undeletable unless you screw with the computer's core programming (if not doing something even more ridiculous) beforehand?