Can You DESTROY Your Computer by Deleting ONE File?

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Published 2020-08-22
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All Comments (21)
  • @ThioJoe
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  • @averymarkow3815
    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
  • @Pesthuf
    I was shocked to see Windows repair actually managing to repair Windows for once. That's insanely rare.
  • @Rudxain
    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
  • @RedstoneRuler
    Geez, the automatic repair is a beast. Never again will I underestimate its power.
  • @pentabitsmusic
    Me: Sees Winload.exe Me: I fear no man But that THING... (Error: Winload.exe not found) It Scares me.
  • 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.
  • @GDNashit
    Thio: Deletes the file that connects the hardware with the operating system Operating System: "I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that"
  • Thanos : I am inevitable Windows : Hold my repair system ¬‿¬
  • @SomeNot
    When you don’t need notifications because you spend all your time lurking on youtube
  • ThioJoe: If you were able to delete one of these vid- YouTube: This video is no longer available!
  • 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.
  • @user-hz5hf9cr8k
    ThioJoe: *minimum 9 minutes to destroy computer* 12 years old me trying to change computer language in registry: *destroys OS in 2 minutes*
  • @elsantib8842
    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.
  • @PrentisHancock1
    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!!!
  • @Jonnyweareten
    my cat managed to destroy the pc without deleting any files, he just wee,d on it.
  • @brosert
    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.
  • @KalamShellaby
    I thought that in the Hal file, you would have found game files. Like Kirby, Smash Bros, and Earthbound.