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[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 206 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The real answer?

"We once gave you commoners this power and you used it to fuck your computer up and then blamed us for it, so we learned you can't be trusted with this power. We hid it behind a kind of skill test, and you're failing that test."

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 50 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Good luck with opening the subdirectories of C:\WindowsApps\. I ran Explorer as admin, gave myself R/W permissions, even recursively changed ownership of everything, followed all the online guides... Still denied access.

[–] applebusch@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you make a bootable linux usb drive you can do whatever you want with all windows stupid files without even having to install linux.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those're probably containerised.

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sandboxed rather than containerised I think.

[–] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what was the difference for those of us who dont know, like andrew over here 😂

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Sandboxed typically restricts a program from being able to read/write to various areas (think an app isn't allowed to use the network, or access USB devices, or it's only allowed access to a certain directory in the filesystem).

Containerised is a way of virtualising an app/apps so that they can be easily distributed to run once or thousands. They can and are also sandboxed to different degrees.

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

U can use proccess hacker to lauch for example total commander with SYSTEM privileges it's highest possible privilege in windows.

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

it’s highest

its* ~~hightest~~ highest

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why can't I delete System32? It's taking up space.

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Where are the other 31 systems??

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I prefer the answer of giving the giy the reins and letting him get it so riddled with viruses then when he calls for support replying "sorry, your property your problem. You have absolute dominion over it and thus we give no warranty as we have no responsibility."

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 year ago

Microsoft gives no warranty and assumes no responsibility as it is.

[–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of the “chmod 777” crowd at work. Goddamn it.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago