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Meghan (she/her)

A woman once came to me saying that she thought her niece had accidentally deleted Windows off of her laptop. The actual problem? Her Chrome was about 30 versions out of date and had for whatever reason had stopped displaying her homepage msn.com. So I updated Chrome, cleared the cache, and gave it back. Users are funny. 😂

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Mathieu PATUREL

accidentally deleted Windows

😂😂😂😂

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K

I did something like this on my first PC when I was 10 or something. :D

I used DOS and the Norton Commander and when looking at C: I found it rather cluttered with files. So I created a SYSTEM folder or something and moved everything into it, it was so easy with NC that I could do it without any prior PC knowledge.

Played some games for hours to go afterwards and when I started the PC the next day it wouldn't boot. I didn't even think about the whole SYSTEM thing anymore, it was just broken. Took over a week to find someone to fix it for me :\