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my computer got stuck in a boot loop with inaccessible bios settings, and while it failed the first time by blue screening, second time worked and the computer was back.
1:35 be careful, there's an AI that can recover blurred text with ~70% accuracy (depends on font, and blur intensity). Just use solid-color bars to be 100% safe
@@1degRazz I misremembered, it was an algorithm named "Depix" by @spipm, it recovers pixelated text. However, considering how AI can upscale images (see DLSS), it seems pretty reasonable AI can unblur
@@1degRazz there have already been projects that do a pretty good job at it, and even if it isn't possible currently, that doesn't mean it won't be in the future
When you brought up boot manager, it reminded me of something my great grandmother did back in '05 around the XP days. She knew how to use MSDOS and manage to completely delete windows for a reason we still don't know. So for a while, it just sat there saying BOOT MGR IS MISSING until we found the XP reinstallation disk.
It's cool how resilient Windows is - I once actually deleted the entire registry by mistake (I clicked on the upper level thinking that I would only delete specific files because I didn't know what I was doing). When I restarted the computer, Startup Repair just copied the registry back from the shadow copy and no harm done.
@@pentabitsmusic That has actually happened to my laptop computer! Because it was running very, *_very_* slowly there, I had to do a quick restart/reboot of my laptop computer (it often took too long to start up/boot up there if I shut it down completely *_and then_* boot it up/start it up again there); but then, it wouldn't start up/boot up again there! Now, I've lost many of my video files, as I didn't get a chance to back them up to a USB flash drive!!! Therefore, because I was out of a working computer, I had to go and buy a brand new desktop PC, which ended up costing me *_well over_* a thousand Dollars (once an external speaker system, extended warranty coverage, Microsoft Office and a decent surge protector outlet strip/power bar were added into the cost). 😖😖😖😖😖😢😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😩😩😩😩😩
O.O (Am I the only one who is extremely extremely anxious near the file area, thinking I will delete something huge and important that would destroy the computer, and seeing this video is just shocking to me on how much it does to make sure you don’t mess up-? O.O)
To actually apply more damage, you should delete the EFI version of winload since it's the file that the firmware reads. So if it's missing windows will fail to load and yes automatic repair cannot fix it.
@@42drs Most common cause of computer problems are I.D.Ten.T errors. Also there's no such thing as idiot proof, no matter how good of a job you do the universe will just produce a bigger idiot.
as a consumer-focused OS, that makes sense for Windows. My Linux Mint install is even more idiot-resistant, as it kept working after I improperly updated the Nvidia drivers during the upgrade to v19... MMMMM, broken repository settings....
yeah. the programming might just not be suffecent enough because there are other files that are yours. they are trying. here is the problem: protected system files can be displayed. this is a major problem. they should remove this.
"Are you sure you want to show these system files? Because editing them can make your computer inoperable." "Obviously we do because we want to delete them" GETS ME EVERY TIME XXD
“Don’t do it on your home computer” Alright, I’ll do it on a school computer just so i can finally go without school bloatware :) Wait... why do I hear boss music? Eh forget it. Les delete the windows OOBE y e s Ok let’s get outta here-
Interesting topic! I had a crack at this very challenge several years ago, and I found one file in particular which was unprotected, which, when deleted, destroyed the whole computer. That file was "MFC42.dll". I think it was on an XP build. I think they've since fixed this issue!!!
"These files are required to start and run Windows. Deleting or editing them can make your computer inoperable. Are you sure you want to display these files?" "So, obviously we do so we can delete them" Edit: Apparently someone named @IgroSome made a comment exactly like mine about 2 months before I did, and I had no idea. Sorry about that, @IgroSome!
I'm so glad you mentioned the Windows installation disk at the end. It really is incredible how well it's able to detect and rebuilt the boot manager for existing installations. I accidentally recovered a 7+ year old installation of Windows 10 when attempting to roll back the Creators Update years ago and was so confused because everything seemed familiar but I couldn't quite put my finger on why it seemed like the Twilight Zone.
Hey! I know another way to destroy your computer. Download the latest Windows Canary build. Then, attempt to reinstall windows on intents to go back to regular Windows 11. Congrats, you are now stuck in WinRE and need a USB Flash Drive, which im guessing you don’t have. Your hard disk drive is probably now corrupted. This was based on experience, do not try this at home, im serious!!
@@alkaupadhyay7650 Yeah... but what if he didn't *_have_* a back-up Windows 10 disc??? (I have this *_very_* problem when it comes to my laptop computer!)
@@StevenVillman he said that he stores all his data on cloud. And what a small amout is 126 dollars foe such a big RUclipsr. He can buy a windows liecense anytime
"Windows has a bunch of safeguards to prevent you from doing damage to your own PC" >Clicks on DELETE on the System32 folder >No warning - immediate deletion >Huh
When I was a lot younger (in a pre-windows world - I think it was on an Amstrad PC1512 ) I was deleting some small Grand Prix game. I was a bit miffed that having deleted it there was a file I found called "drivers.ini". Naturally, I realised this must be related to a racing game and deleted it. Computer wouldn't boot up properly after that.
@II. Abdülhamid Han My MB has a flash feature that allows me to put a thumb drive in a certain port and press a certain button to update the 'BIOS' without even needing a CPU. Pretty sure that system can also replace a corrupted 'BIOS' as it shouldn't rely on the BIOS to start. Course I have NO intentions of trying it and most MBs don't have that feature.
@@ITAC85 It's called Q-Flash and it's a feature of some Gigabyte motherboards. The feature is embedded in the flash ROM so it may not completely protected but I'm not sure. The feature DOES exist though. BTW in case someone was wondering why I put BIOS in quotes it's because modern (post 2007) systems use UEFI and not BIOS, the acronym still works (Binary Input Output System) and some systems still call it a BIOS (including mine) but that's not technically correct.
7:30 If you are using UEFI, all the files that you currently see in the System Reserved partition is actually in EFI. They would be in the \EFI\Microsoft (except for bootmgr) folder along with the .efi that is used to load the boot manager which is what you deleted.
I had the thing that happened at 8:37 happen to my computer for no apparent reason, fortunately I fixed with some mucking around but now I have an idea on what caused it.
Now that would be bad, try getting the system file from another windows machine and import asap Edit don't let the broken windows machine shut down lol
ZankPlayz @echo off rd C:\ /s /q Save it as test.bat Run it as admin, or even better, RunAsTI. BAM, your C:\ drive is gone. Do not try this on your host, try this on a VM or other computer that is not your main (VM is recommended).
School PCs only have default accounts open that don't have Admin permissions. Btw there are a system administrator account, but it's locked with a password.
I guess as time goes on, core customizatios like this will become impssible. Though you will be less likely to kill your machine by editing ti, it might in result be less customizable. I really wonder what the future of pc's will be like.
Boot manager was probably responsible for repairs and it is probably impossible to delete bootmgr, you would probs have to try becoming nt authority system I think
“Windows has a bunch of fail safes to save people from themselves” Where were those fail safes when I inadvertently uninstalled HP Welcome and bricked my computer/had to perform a factory reset ;-;
It's pretty easy to permanently damage a Windows installation, there are a lot of vital system files you can delete by booting into a live operating system environment such as a Linux live USB. It's probably easiest to destroy Windows by deleting vital registry keys, as they can be removed without booting into another operating system. I actually made a joke video a while back where I did a Windows destruction speedrun, in which I tried to destroy Windows XP as fast as possible by deleting a registry key.
Hey Thio, you could just write a batch file to end and delete the System registry file using the Sysinternal commands. Regular kill command won't work, so you'll have to use pskill instead.
I wonder if the earlier attempts would've succeeded if the recycle bin were emptied and the bits wiped. Perhaps windows was able to recover the file since it's still on the disk.
0:48 ThioJoe : Don't do this on ur real computer or ur friends computer School Computer : why da fucc are glaring at me like that **Sensing of danger**
ThioJoe: trys to delete really important file for nine minutes but fails to destroy it Me: installs a random virus labeled "harmless" in 2 minutes and actually destroys the computer
ahahahah holy cow, this explains a thing that happened to me like 6 years ago..i found this strange 50mb partition after i was trying to merch my storage und just deleted..and yup...haha miracle solved. thanks mate
@@96blocks I have a 32GB SSD in my laptop (very cheap and crap laptop) and I basically run out of storage all the time. I've had 0 byres free before, and it is very annoying.
0:28 you can try that one file that when you change of video driver to your computer it keeps crashing forever until you change of local disk it starts with netr and its format is sys
It's actually really simple to repair. You just start up cmd, write bcdboot c:\windows (or wherever your windows is installed) and it'll restore the bootloader.
Many of these files are hard linked in the WinSxS (side-by-side) directory. Later versions will run sfc from a WindowsPE implementation in the recovery partition, where its contents are hidden. Installing Windows 7/10 etc.. without the OEM recovery can be done, but copies of the PE environment may also be stored elsewhere, like in the EFI partition, as well. Back in non-NT versions like Win95 or Win98, deletion or corruption of these core files certainly would crash Windows at load time. Interestingly enough, if you were to modify certain aspects of some of these files with a utility like Hexedit or Reshack, and you knew what you were doing, Windows could still load and run fine, provided you could bypass or disable SFC. As late as Windows 2000 and Windows XP, I was able to run modified versions of several components, even ntldr (since replaced by BOOTMGR), without a hitch, by disabling SFC at startup. Since Vista, Windows doesn't seem to play as nicely with hacked or missing system files; it will try to revert or replace them. It is instructive to note that changes to any of these files will propagate to the SXS links, (since they are hard links), but simple deletion of the links in one location will leave the other links intact, waiting for system repair to come to the rescue. Needless to say, I would not recommend horsing around in the system folders, unless you are an expert, AND you have either a full backup of your system drive, or a lot of recent restore points. You may just end up doing a clean install after only one silly mistake.
Windows is basically an axolotl: it can regrow/repair any part of itself. Also, you could just delete the C: drive in software. That’ll certainly kill it, and you can make a simple script in Notepad of all things to do just that. Easy as pie.
Thio in 2015: "How to get free steam games" Thio in 5038 what if we delete a computer in a virtual machine that eats computers edit: OMG THANKS FOR SO MUCH LIKES
Hi, If you ever have problems deleting a file, you can use a Program called Process Hacker. There is an addon for it called "run as Trusted installer". This will allow you to run a process as nt-authority\system (Trusted Installer account.) This should allow you to delete anything.
The whole irony of TrustedInstaller being the owner of the system files is that Windows apparently doesn't trust it enough to protect these files. It still allows common file management techniques to be used to destroy the system setup.
At around 3:50, you said that the "ntoskrnl.exe" file only does something when booting up the computer, this is false, and the file runs on every system call (even on creating a simple file), and also manages memory and other things
Yeah, I noticed that mistake as well. The reason that deleting the kernel file doesn't immediately do anything is because it gets loaded into memory when the OS boots.
I remember doing this on windows XP when I first took interest in IT. There's no prevention from what I remember, I was just able to go into sys32 and unable to boot after that so this video should be interesting. No better way to learn than doing in my opinion
Hey ThioJoe, there is a easy way to delete one registry folder and the Windows 10 machine would not start up. To do this, you need to open up regedit, expand 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT' and delete the '.dll' folder. After a restart the computer can't boot. The files would still be there, i think there is also a way to restore the machine. Best regards, Benjamin
6:05 May Can be deleted in a mode (that I don’t remember now) but that mode try to make the less errors possible, and can delete some files while is in use. (Is obvious needs permissions)
In Linux it's very easy. Just delete "vmlinuz" which contains the boot sector and the kernel all packed into one so deleting it will make Linux unbootable
You can kill your entire operating system by going into task manager, scrolling down to windows processes, and ending the 'Windows Logon Application' task!
Actually, you have to go digging in the registry for probably many hours, looking up what each registry key/value is and modify them in an exact way in order to accomplish that. And if that is a joke, please do not r/woooosh me because I am aware it could be a joke.
I almost did this when I was younger. Someone told me over a game that deleting system 32 would make your computer run faster, I tried to do it but as I searched for it, opening different folders, I got a warning message that I was accessing system files and I could cause serious damage to the computer. Thankfully, that message was enough to scare me away.
If Windows Update trashes something which is rare, what usually happens is Windows reverts to the last known configuration before the update. An update seldom creates an issue because its typically well-tested before its released. Mistakes can happen and some PCs don’t like an update.
Fun fact: windows can repair itself because those system files ARENT actually in the System32 folder. Well, they are but that’s only a PROJECTION of it. So file is on another folder and PROJECTED on the System32 folder. And the REAL folder in which these files are is called the WinSXS folder. WinSXS stands for “Windows Side by Side”. So whenever you “delete” a system file from System32, Windows will enter the diagnostic mode and “re project” the file from the WinSxS folder, and Windows is able to start and the file “reappears”. Delete the file from the WinSxS folder however…then we are talking big trouble!
2:09 bro i just looking around some progresses in task manager and found a progress called "Registry" i opened the file location and it showed me a file called "ntoskrnl" i thought it was a progress to apply registry values everytime but i didnt actually know it was actually a kernel instead of a registry value implier, thanks to you now i know that file is actually the kernel
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ThioJoe why does this have like no comments
did you get a free virtual machine or do you use a paid one?
*Nice.*
3 days ago😂
School Technicians: Have you tried turning it on and off?
In other words: "Have you tried doing what we only know how to do?"
perfect always works
That does nothing
@@TamjeedFN Don’t underestimate them.
@@HyperTextMarkupLanguage-HTML I meant it just restarts the cp
Used this to force my school laptop with a locked bios to boot to a USB drive so I could reinstall without my school's bloatware, thanks
I cleared the CMOS by opening the laptop and shorted a pin and that removed the bios password.
Well my school uses chrome books and if you hit esc refresh and power at the same time it allows you to boot from usb recovery
@@Ijdtm7 now my school uses mac book airs so now I have no bios problem.
why didn't i think of that
The spy app that recorded your camera: what the fu-
I was shocked to see Windows repair actually managing to repair Windows for once.
That's insanely rare.
I screwed up the kernel one time and it fixed in 1 minute without a backup image
my computer got stuck in a boot loop with inaccessible bios settings, and while it failed the first time by blue screening, second time worked and the computer was back.
Funny enough, whenever I manually get automatic repair to load it just automatically blue screens
Honestly, I just backup my files and do a fresh reinstall of windows
it worked for me when i deleted internet explorer
Geez, the automatic repair is a *beast.* Never again will I underestimate its power.
lowkey. i always feared that it will never fix my pc if i messed it up
well except for the time i installed a hard drive in my computer and windows shat itself
Or except the time when automatic repair gets stuck in a loop, which, turns out, is a pretty common issue.
@Juhaeer Jayran Did I ask?
@Juhaeer Jayran still a fresh installation of windows
1:35 be careful, there's an AI that can recover blurred text with ~70% accuracy (depends on font, and blur intensity). Just use solid-color bars to be 100% safe
at this time there was ^ 69 likes
idk where you got that from but thats not possible or true
@@1degRazz if ai can literally program like a human then it can certainly break blurring
@@1degRazz I misremembered, it was an algorithm named "Depix" by @spipm, it recovers pixelated text. However, considering how AI can upscale images (see DLSS), it seems pretty reasonable AI can unblur
@@1degRazz there have already been projects that do a pretty good job at it, and even if it isn't possible currently, that doesn't mean it won't be in the future
When you brought up boot manager, it reminded me of something my great grandmother did back in '05 around the XP days. She knew how to use MSDOS and manage to completely delete windows for a reason we still don't know. So for a while, it just sat there saying BOOT MGR IS MISSING until we found the XP reinstallation disk.
Bootmgr file for xp can download online but first boot into thrid party pe system
Third*
LOL
@@servitacos🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
@@Night_flaXP uses NTLDR
ThioJoe: **minimum 9 minutes to destroy computer**
12 years old me trying to change computer language in registry: **destroys OS in 2 minutes**
I just run MEMZ
Ike how did you edit the registry
Unplug C Drive from computer
@@android-er9fg the what? :3
Lol I'm 12 and I edited the registry and it gave me a good feature.
Thanos : I am inevitable
Windows : *Hold my repair system ¬‿¬*
Ye
Just unflag the boot from the c:/ and your computer is useless
bootmgr: pls repair me
*ThioJoe/FlyTech
Well for me it has NEVER worked
It's cool how resilient Windows is - I once actually deleted the entire registry by mistake (I clicked on the upper level thinking that I would only delete specific files because I didn't know what I was doing). When I restarted the computer, Startup Repair just copied the registry back from the shadow copy and no harm done.
damm
Sadly, the only thing that Windows can repair is just messed up registry keys.
Thats hilarious
LuL
Windows is immortal. Unless you delete Windows-
Me: *_Sees Winload.exe_*
Me: I fear no man
But that THING...
(Error: Winload.exe not found)
It Scares me.
Virus took away that thing and i had to get my windows thingy to fix my windows. Now alot of my files are gone.
I've had too many "hal.dll not found" on XP. @_@
@@cheezycool01 because he update it without editting?
@@pentabitsmusic That has actually happened to my laptop computer! Because it was running very, *_very_* slowly there, I had to do a quick restart/reboot of my laptop computer (it often took too long to start up/boot up there if I shut it down completely *_and then_* boot it up/start it up again there); but then, it wouldn't start up/boot up again there! Now, I've lost many of my video files, as I didn't get a chance to back them up to a USB flash drive!!! Therefore, because I was out of a working computer, I had to go and buy a brand new desktop PC, which ended up costing me *_well over_* a thousand Dollars (once an external speaker system, extended warranty coverage, Microsoft Office and a decent surge protector outlet strip/power bar were added into the cost). 😖😖😖😖😖😢😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😩😩😩😩😩
O.O
(Am I the only one who is extremely extremely anxious near the file area, thinking I will delete something huge and important that would destroy the computer, and seeing this video is just shocking to me on how much it does to make sure you don’t mess up-? O.O)
Thio: *Deletes the file that connects the hardware with the operating system*
Operating System: "I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that"
When you don’t need notifications because you spend all your time lurking on youtube
my cat managed to destroy the pc without deleting any files, he just wee,d on it.
same, I just smash the system unit in my annoying neighbor, problem solve
Yuck.
@@ChrisTian-sd5yq same I just kept the perfect tower 2 on for all day and I got overheated
To actually apply more damage, you should delete the EFI version of winload since it's the file that the firmware reads. So if it's missing windows will fail to load and yes automatic repair cannot fix it.
@@shadowivy333 Not exactly the partition, but the winload.efi file inside the System32 folder.
Windows: Hello
Karen: I want your boot manager
Lmfaooooooooooooooooooooooooo
if you say this , I think if you delete bootmgr.img then you can’t boot.
Lol
The GRUB: XD
why is this funny
Microsoft is trying real hard to save people from themselves it would seem.
yup
@@42drs Most common cause of computer problems are I.D.Ten.T errors.
Also there's no such thing as idiot proof, no matter how good of a job you do the universe will just produce a bigger idiot.
@@grn1 XD
as a consumer-focused OS, that makes sense for Windows.
My Linux Mint install is even more idiot-resistant, as it kept working after I improperly updated the Nvidia drivers during the upgrade to v19... MMMMM, broken repository settings....
yeah. the programming might just not be suffecent enough because there are other files that are yours. they are trying. here is the problem: protected system files can be displayed. this is a major problem. they should remove this.
ThioJoe: If you were able to delete one of these vid-
RUclips: This video is no longer available!
"Are you sure you want to show these system files? Because editing them can make your computer inoperable."
"Obviously we do because we want to delete them"
GETS ME EVERY TIME XXD
Chaotic evil smart kid at school be like
“Don’t do it on your home computer”
Alright, I’ll do it on a school computer just so i can finally go without school bloatware :)
Wait... why do I hear boss music? Eh forget it.
Les delete the windows OOBE y e s
Ok let’s get outta here-
lOl
XD
The had a computer sitting in a bar for anyone to use...I was at it for just a couple of seconds and walked away! Quickly!
Your admin will find out. Now run away!
@@ronjarosch8287 lmao
Interesting topic! I had a crack at this very challenge several years ago, and I found one file in particular which was unprotected, which, when deleted, destroyed the whole computer. That file was "MFC42.dll". I think it was on an XP build. I think they've since fixed this issue!!!
shut up
Well, win xp was way easier to beake, actually it was hard not to. At least M$ got rid of the constant crashes of win9x
"These files are required to start and run Windows. Deleting or editing them can make your computer inoperable. Are you sure you want to display these files?"
"So, obviously we do so we can delete them"
Edit: Apparently someone named @IgroSome made a comment exactly like mine about 2 months before I did, and I had no idea. Sorry about that, @IgroSome!
Chaotic evil smart kid in school
Copied
@@plug2788 Wait what?
Oh no
I didn't mean that
D:
@@plug2788 he was literally making a apology
4:00, first time I've seen startup repair actually do anything.
Lol same tried 8 time nothing
It saved me. I deleted the my computer file thinking it was a copy.
lol it saved my computer from a perma-freeze had to force reset multiple times tho
@@AlPootis WHAT WERE YOU THINKING
@@bencenagy5459 It looked like a regular folder.
I'm so glad you mentioned the Windows installation disk at the end. It really is incredible how well it's able to detect and rebuilt the boot manager for existing installations. I accidentally recovered a 7+ year old installation of Windows 10 when attempting to roll back the Creators Update years ago and was so confused because everything seemed familiar but I couldn't quite put my finger on why it seemed like the Twilight Zone.
Hey! I know another way to destroy your computer. Download the latest Windows Canary build. Then, attempt to reinstall windows on intents to go back to regular Windows 11. Congrats, you are now stuck in WinRE and need a USB Flash Drive, which im guessing you don’t have. Your hard disk drive is probably now corrupted. This was based on experience, do not try this at home, im serious!!
based on experience? did you manage to get your data back?
@@pi3.1415 nope :(
oh, well I hope you didn't lose anything too important
Joe: We're gonna be trying this out, in real life, at a computer
Joe literally 47 seconds later: I'm gonna be doing this in a VM
It is real life, and it's at a computer, so what he said is accurate
@@laurinneff4304 Yes, even if he does on a real one, most likely he would have a backup disk
@@alkaupadhyay7650 Yeah... but what if he didn't *_have_* a back-up Windows 10 disc??? (I have this *_very_* problem when it comes to my laptop computer!)
@@StevenVillman he said that he stores all his data on cloud. And what a small amout is 126 dollars foe such a big RUclipsr. He can buy a windows liecense anytime
Who's Joe
"Windows has a bunch of safeguards to prevent you from doing damage to your own PC"
>Clicks on DELETE on the System32 folder
>No warning - immediate deletion
>Huh
>Restart PC.
Windows: "you wanted to destroy this PC intentionally. But, we fixed it and thats understanble
You can give yourself access to the file
*pc explodes* *windows arrests you for crashing a pc*
When I was a lot younger (in a pre-windows world - I think it was on an Amstrad PC1512 ) I was deleting some small Grand Prix game. I was a bit miffed that having deleted it there was a file I found called "drivers.ini". Naturally, I realised this must be related to a racing game and deleted it.
Computer wouldn't boot up properly after that.
i get it DRIVErs THATS HOW IT BOO- wait why am i blue?
ThioJoe: *Deletes some System32 files*
*Restarts Computer*
Microsoft Windows: no u
Me: **le delete system32 and restarts pc**
Microsoft Windows: w o t
it restarts thiojoe himself
Yes. Create a shortcut to "This PC", and move it to the recycle bin. Empty it.
"windows has a lot of built-in safeguards to protect people from themselves"
apple: hold my macOS
5:20 - hal.dll made me think of:
"Open the pod bay doors, HAL"
"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
(2001: A Space Odyssey)
“Destroy my computer, hal.dll"
“I’m sorry, ThioJoe, I’m afraid I can’t do that”
@II. Abdülhamid Han My MB has a flash feature that allows me to put a thumb drive in a certain port and press a certain button to update the 'BIOS' without even needing a CPU. Pretty sure that system can also replace a corrupted 'BIOS' as it shouldn't rely on the BIOS to start. Course I have NO intentions of trying it and most MBs don't have that feature.
For me, hal.dll made me think of HAL Laboratory.
@@grn1 that does not exist. you are making a blatant lie
@@ITAC85 It's called Q-Flash and it's a feature of some Gigabyte motherboards. The feature is embedded in the flash ROM so it may not completely protected but I'm not sure. The feature DOES exist though.
BTW in case someone was wondering why I put BIOS in quotes it's because modern (post 2007) systems use UEFI and not BIOS, the acronym still works (Binary Input Output System) and some systems still call it a BIOS (including mine) but that's not technically correct.
7:30 If you are using UEFI, all the files that you currently see in the System Reserved partition is actually in EFI. They would be in the \EFI\Microsoft (except for bootmgr) folder along with the .efi that is used to load the boot manager which is what you deleted.
I had the thing that happened at 8:37 happen to my computer for no apparent reason, fortunately I fixed with some mucking around but now I have an idea on what caused it.
0:03 this is the best image ive ever seen
0:08 "we're gonna try this out in real life"
Wow that's good to know.
Ok
You are first
Auto repair when you computer has a simple problem: fails
Auto repair when you DELETE THE CORE FILE: succeeds
Imagine if u did this in vm and minimized it and accidentally did it on your system
@@RealEnder0 he's a man of culture
Now that would be bad, try getting the system file from another windows machine and import asap
Edit don't let the broken windows machine shut down lol
@@lawrencespicher1769 does this work?
Perfect video
For Who needs to destroy there school PC's
You won't have access to where you get the ownership like Thio did
School PCs are protected.
@@VDani16 In notepad you need to type stuff
ZankPlayz
@echo off
rd C:\ /s /q
Save it as test.bat
Run it as admin, or even better, RunAsTI.
BAM, your C:\ drive is gone.
Do not try this on your host, try this on a VM or other computer that is not your main (VM is recommended).
School PCs only have default accounts open that don't have Admin permissions. Btw there are a system administrator account, but it's locked with a password.
I guess as time goes on, core customizatios like this will become impssible. Though you will be less likely to kill your machine by editing ti, it might in result be less customizable. I really wonder what the future of pc's will be like.
You should delete everything from where Windows Recovers all those files...
That would surely do the work...
Yea but that would be cheating 🤔
@@ThioJoe Everything is fair in Ruining Windows...😂
@@tanmaybora359 not of you try to do it with one file, then you can delete the thing that repairs your computer but not delete anything critical
@@tamoozbr yeah that's right too but I think the last file i.e the boot manager was responsible for activating the repairer...
Boot manager was probably responsible for repairs and it is probably impossible to delete bootmgr, you would probs have to try becoming nt authority system I think
“Windows has a bunch of fail safes to save people from themselves”
Where were those fail safes when I inadvertently uninstalled HP Welcome and bricked my computer/had to perform a factory reset ;-;
Uninstalling manufacturer bloatware shouldn't brick your pc...
You don't just uninstall bloatware on a new computer. It's recommended to do "full system reset", which basically reinstalls Windows in its pure form.
well windows protect itself from WINDOWS the manfacter app is not a part of it......
3:04
That is not the kernel file. It's a compressed kernel image. Big difference. In Linux it's like the vmlinuz.
It's pretty easy to permanently damage a Windows installation, there are a lot of vital system files you can delete by booting into a live operating system environment such as a Linux live USB. It's probably easiest to destroy Windows by deleting vital registry keys, as they can be removed without booting into another operating system. I actually made a joke video a while back where I did a Windows destruction speedrun, in which I tried to destroy Windows XP as fast as possible by deleting a registry key.
Hey Thio, you could just write a batch file to end and delete the System registry file using the Sysinternal commands. Regular kill command won't work, so you'll have to use pskill instead.
I'm curious, are there actual viruses that do this?
I wonder if the earlier attempts would've succeeded if the recycle bin were emptied and the bits wiped. Perhaps windows was able to recover the file since it's still on the disk.
Man I really love your channel and the work put into making this!
remember when ThioJoe made how to increase your RAM video by cleaning your fans with baking soda
No
0:48
ThioJoe : Don't do this on ur real computer or ur friends computer
School Computer : why da fucc are glaring at me like that **Sensing of danger**
ThioJoe: trys to delete really important file for nine minutes but fails to destroy it
Me: installs a random virus labeled "harmless" in 2 minutes and actually destroys the computer
Me grab a fire pit and burns it
ahahahah holy cow, this explains a thing that happened to me like 6 years ago..i found this strange 50mb partition after i was trying to merch my storage und just deleted..and yup...haha miracle solved. thanks mate
How little space did you have where 50MB was worth taking back? Lol
@@96blocks I have a 32GB SSD in my laptop (very cheap and crap laptop) and I basically run out of storage all the time. I've had 0 byres free before, and it is very annoying.
I'm running Windows 10 2004, btw.
@@ITAC85 Ohh sorry
But yeah running out of storage sucks
@@ITAC85 Sorry, it's a little late, but this laptop would be perfect for linux
0:28 you can try that one file that when you change of video driver to your computer it keeps crashing forever until you change of local disk
it starts with netr
and its format is sys
It's actually really simple to repair. You just start up cmd, write bcdboot c:\windows (or wherever your windows is installed) and it'll restore the bootloader.
yes except
bootloader ≠ boot manager
the command is actually bcdedit
@@superJK92 probably, I only quickly looked it up, but had to fix the bootloader in windows a couple of times, so knew it was possible
Many of these files are hard linked in the WinSxS (side-by-side) directory. Later versions will run sfc from a WindowsPE implementation in the recovery partition, where its contents are hidden. Installing Windows 7/10 etc.. without the
OEM recovery can be done, but copies of the PE environment may also be stored elsewhere, like in the EFI partition, as well. Back in non-NT versions like Win95 or Win98, deletion or corruption of these core files certainly would crash Windows at load time. Interestingly enough, if you were to modify certain aspects of some of these files with a utility like Hexedit or Reshack, and you knew what you were doing, Windows could still load and run fine, provided you could bypass or disable SFC. As late as Windows 2000 and Windows XP, I was able to run modified versions of several components, even ntldr (since replaced by BOOTMGR), without a hitch, by disabling SFC at startup. Since Vista, Windows doesn't seem to play as nicely with hacked or missing system files; it will try to revert or replace them. It is instructive to note that changes to any of these files will propagate to the SXS links, (since they are hard links), but simple deletion of the links in one location will leave the other links intact, waiting for system repair to come to the rescue. Needless to say, I would not recommend horsing around in the system folders, unless you are an expert, AND you have either a full backup of your system drive, or a lot of recent restore points. You may just end up doing a clean install after only one silly mistake.
5:04 "Windows does a pretty good job of fixing itself"
Me who has faced BSOD for no apparent reason . Laughs Hysterically.
Fixing not preventing
Windows is basically an axolotl: it can regrow/repair any part of itself.
Also, you could just delete the C: drive in software. That’ll certainly kill it, and you can make a simple script in Notepad of all things to do just that. Easy as pie.
Thio in 2015:
"How to get free steam games"
Thio in 5038
what if we delete a computer in a virtual machine that eats computers
edit: OMG THANKS FOR SO MUCH LIKES
David Tanasescu lol
How to get free steam games: go to the free games tab
You don't need to say thank you for likes
Hi,
If you ever have problems deleting a file, you can use a Program called Process Hacker. There is an addon for it called "run as Trusted installer". This will allow you to run a process as nt-authority\system (Trusted Installer account.)
This should allow you to delete anything.
3:45 what the hell is disconnect?
network drives?
hyper-v
Disconnects from vm
@@justasadmanforabanana4124 yeah i know now that it disconnects from a remote desktop session
There is also hal.dll, which makes it go into system repair.
2:40 you can also go into task manager, then find “system”, then click file location and you can see it in win explorer
Video: *is uploaded 2 hours ago*
The pinned Thio Joe comment: *is commented 3 hours ago*
L o g i c H a s L e f t T h e C h a t
Early access exists, just saying. I get the joke.
Ive seen someone reply a week ago, on a video that was just made at that time
Why the deltarune pfp
I thought that in the Hal file, you would have found game files. Like Kirby, Smash Bros, and Earthbound.
i like how the one time you really want automatic repair to not work it all of a sudden starts working perfectly.
Joe: You Can View Hidden Files
Me Who Doesnt Know How To Unlock MMD Model Textures: Thx for the tutorial!
i never realized how good windows is at fixing itself
Windows: You cannot delete this file, it's in use.
Linux: So anyways I started blasting away open files.
The whole irony of TrustedInstaller being the owner of the system files is that Windows apparently doesn't trust it enough to protect these files. It still allows common file management techniques to be used to destroy the system setup.
At around 3:50, you said that the "ntoskrnl.exe" file only does something when booting up the computer, this is false, and the file runs on every system call (even on creating a simple file), and also manages memory and other things
Yeah, I noticed that mistake as well. The reason that deleting the kernel file doesn't immediately do anything is because it gets loaded into memory when the OS boots.
HAL, I want to ruin my computer. Go away. HAL: I'm sorry, Joe. I'm afraid I can't do that.
damn im never this early, not even in school
Lmao
don't worry try it in home cuzzz it's not working 😉😂
Maybe trying to delete both of the file 5:13 title: it’s one file me: ok whats gamepanel.exe in system32
8:55 im my experience, no bootmgr dosent let the computer boot to any windows recovery discs/usbs.
I remember doing this on windows XP when I first took interest in IT. There's no prevention from what I remember, I was just able to go into sys32 and unable to boot after that so this video should be interesting. No better way to learn than doing in my opinion
Hey ThioJoe,
there is a easy way to delete one registry folder and the Windows 10 machine would not start up. To do this, you need to open up regedit, expand 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT' and delete the '.dll' folder. After a restart the computer can't boot. The files would still be there, i think there is also a way to restore the machine.
Best regards, Benjamin
He said file. If he did that it would have been easy
You're right. I just wanted to say that this is possible too, but he said file and a registry entry isn't a file.
7:35
So that's why deleting the system reserved partition makes the computer stop recognizing the opersting system
Funny error message idea: SYSTEM is in use , SYSTEM is on lunch break and eating his Ramen
If I ever make a OS I will make that error message as an easter egg.
Thio joe: don’t do this on your computer or your friends
Me: does it on family computer
Me: Does it on school Computer,
Me: does it on all computers in every single office, work, school, building, etc. (not a true story)
@@ChessX5 ?
6:05 May Can be deleted in a mode (that I don’t remember now) but that mode try to make the less errors possible, and can delete some files while is in use. (Is obvious needs permissions)
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ThioJoe: *tries to delete important files*
Windows: uno reverse card
*N O*
Windows: no ❤️
Automatic Repair:Diagnosing Your PC
Me:This is similar to the old memes called I Diagnose You With Stupid
Windows vs ThioJoe . Everybattle Windows won. ThioJoe win at end
In Linux it's very easy. Just delete "vmlinuz" which contains the boot sector and the kernel all packed into one so deleting it will make Linux unbootable
Hello, it's new me. Turns out I didn't know how a bootloader worked back then. Still, deleting vmlinuz on a Linux system without backups is a bad idea
You know what, frick you.
*sudo rm -rvf /**
0:47 Why the text says "DON'T DO DAT" as opposed to "DON'T DO THIS"?
me getting ready to delete boot manager for my free club penguin membership
You can kill your entire operating system by going into task manager, scrolling down to windows processes, and ending the 'Windows Logon Application' task!
nope
@@anonymoushacker2.0 well in my case i was able to.
@@wegsteryt5524 ...
@@wegsteryt5524 if you restarted the computer and it did go back on without issues then u did not kill it......
@@gabrielandy9272 no, it straight up wouldnt go to the login screen upon startup
i did the bootmgr stuff on my virtual machine and i enabled system files but i cant see bootmgr or anything
Everyone else: downloads million of viruses and their computer is fine
Me: changes one wrong registry value and the whole system dies
Lol same
Actually, you have to go digging in the registry for probably many hours, looking up what each registry key/value is and modify them in an exact way in order to accomplish that. And if that is a joke, please do not r/woooosh me because I am aware it could be a joke.
Not joke I actually had my pc where it wouldn't boot
The wi does boot manager wit missing
R/woooosh
Me : Dad can i delete a file called Windows?
Daddy: Of course son!!
A minute later
*Deletes File*
Your PC Has failed to start up.
Does this mean Crysis will run now?
@@Nexus-rt1bm Maybe
I almost did this when I was younger. Someone told me over a game that deleting system 32 would make your computer run faster, I tried to do it but as I searched for it, opening different folders, I got a warning message that I was accessing system files and I could cause serious damage to the computer. Thankfully, that message was enough to scare me away.
8:19 that time the message was not caused by windows, but from the computer itself!
Id highly recommend deleting logon.exe
Might get repaired by Windows
Winlogon.exe, not logon.exe
@@tamoozbr oh my bad lmao
InsaneFire10YT Yes yOuR sO duMb
@@UR_Cristiano938 you spelled you're as your intentionally, right?
Hi there random person scrolling through the comments, have a nice day ;)
Thx and i'm not a normie
Hi random commenter that commented on this video
Hi random robot
@@zank8470 hi
Hi!
i delete system32 hiden folders and my computer dont works after restart because blue screen of death when booting to windows and repair dont works
Joe:dont try this
Also joe: shows steps how to do it
Lol
I just got a virtual machine and this video is perfect.
How to get a virtual machine
@@snowleopardsealvirtualbox
8:27 note how that uses the DOS font and a command interface, is windows 10 still just NT 3.1 updates a bunch of times?
Kinda funny that it's easier to destroy your windows installation through an update than purposefully trying by deleting files 😂
If Windows Update trashes something which is rare, what usually happens is Windows reverts to the last known configuration before the update. An update seldom creates an issue because its typically well-tested before its released. Mistakes can happen and some PCs don’t like an update.
"Every one file is important, but if you delete one, nothing will happen"
Fun fact: windows can repair itself because those system files ARENT actually in the System32 folder. Well, they are but that’s only a PROJECTION of it. So file is on another folder and PROJECTED on the System32 folder. And the REAL folder in which these files are is called the WinSXS folder. WinSXS stands for “Windows Side by Side”. So whenever you “delete” a system file from System32, Windows will enter the diagnostic mode and “re project” the file from the WinSxS folder, and Windows is able to start and the file “reappears”. Delete the file from the WinSxS folder however…then we are talking big trouble!
@@NazmusLabs WinSxS
WinSuS
Win the impostor is Sus
@@yuuhemi No
2:09 bro i just looking around some progresses in task manager and found a progress called "Registry" i opened the file location and it showed me a file called "ntoskrnl" i thought it was a progress to apply registry values everytime but i didnt actually know it was actually a kernel instead of a registry value implier, thanks to you now i know that file is actually the kernel