Dec 18, 2022 18:00:00

A terrible drinking party 'System32 roulette' that keeps trying to randomly select files from Windows' 'System32', delete them and restart

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System32 ' in Windows is a directory that stores program files necessary for normal operation of Windows. If this directory or files below it are damaged, Windows itself may not operate properly. Hacker News, a social news site, has reported that he tried the courage to randomly select and delete files from such System32 and try to play by trying to see if he could restart.

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Mr. Waterluvian, the poster, got a new PC with Windows 98 in high school, randomly selected files in System32, deleted them, and restarted the machine. It was said that it was.

The rule is simple, after randomly selecting and deleting System32 files, if the PC is restarted and does not start normally, the person who deleted it will drink alcohol and reinstall Windows. Conversely, if Windows operated successfully and the folder returned to normal, it seems that someone other than the person who deleted the file was supposed to drink alcohol.

Mr. Waterluvian said that he was mainly playing System32 roulette as a sideshow while playing Super Smash Bros. ``The best part is that an extremely drunk is trying to install Windows, which was funny,'' said Waterluvian.

It seems that the installation media of Windows 98 was a CD, but because it was copied to a very low quality CD-ROM, it seems that the label surface was eventually scratched and the data surface was peeled off.

Regarding how the 'random selection' was determined, Mr. Waterluvian replied, 'I set the Explorer display to detailed display and kept pressing the down arrow until someone stopped.'

According to Hacker News, ' Going back to high school and playing System32 roulette in 2022 will be a real test of endurance. ' Which piece will it be? ' ' I wanted to ask if there was a list of files that caused Windows to fail to boot, but System32 Roulette was a drinking party game... ' Comments were received.

' To be fair, the System32 Roulette approach is the usual way to debug problems. Isolate parts of the program and see if the problem remains until the problem is identified.' There was a user who commented, but Mr. Waterluvian replied , 'Why don't you split Windows bugs and Crown Royal bottles with your friends?'