29th March 2023, 8:01 PM
(29th March 2023, 12:34 PM)etoven Wrote:(28th March 2023, 6:17 AM)Weltall Wrote: I thought this was what 'defenestration' meant:
There was a bug in older windows where if you delete the recycle bin you in effect recycle the recycle bin. And then the function is gone for good.
I genuinely to this day have no idea how to process that. Somewhere at the far end of impressive stupid and impressive smarts lies that bug.
Also you could drag the "my computer" icon into the recycle bin and windows would refuse to boot ever again.
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Having used just about every version of Windows since 3.1 back in the day, I think those may be jokes. The system wouldn't let you delete the recycle bin, but you could hide it. The "My Computer" icon could be hidden but you couldn't destroy the boot process by deleting it. It wasn't really "there" as a distinct file in the first place. Don't misunderstand though. Windows back then was VERY fragile and easy to break in many many ways, mostly driver related.
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