after google-ing a computer fix i sometimes re-google the answer to make sure it's legitimate.

seriously bro? 😂😂😂
you think we're all noobs here? 😂😂

Yeah, this was funny 15 years ago..

Isn't it just a myth? If you try to delete it you should receive an error message. In my opinion nobody has ever been so brave to try it

@forkbomber rename system32 to system64 to take advantage of your state of the art 64-bit CPU. Doubles performance.

not even the windows 10 icon. I SAD SO MUCH.

@crisz I'll try it tomorrow.

@flag0 I don't want the responsibility

@crisz virtual machines for the win.

@crisz Here's what I learned:
a. You need to fiddle with permissions and stuff to get it to even start wiping system32 so unless someone is really determined and has a detailed guide on how to do it, your average Joe can't just delete it. hard on windows 7 and even harder by one step on 10.
b. Delete never completes. system crashes while deleting and won't boot back up. (as expected)
C. you can still use windows ISO (or recovery I guess) to restore. system restore doens't work though. (it sort of never works, but just ponting out)
d. windows 7 VM really eats up battery on my laptop. 10 is far much efficient. Win7 had more ram and video memory allocated but still was more sluggish than 10. both are fully updated. 10 is anniversary+ updated (fast track).
e. I never tried to actually restore completely from the disc, I cancelled it and rolled back to a previous snapshot but looks like it works as it had started restoring.

@flag0 amazing, as I imagined. Thank you for your witness

@flag0 I remember the win xp days when I deleted random files inside sys32 to experiment which files were really essential and which ones are not :P