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I stopped a game from downloading midway through, and I falsely assumed that there would be a half-downloaded game stuck on my PC. Without thinking, I found a tutorial(Someone had posted it on the Microsoft website) on how to delete a half-downloaded game, and it required me to wrestle my way into that dreaded folder.
I had gone into the security settings to grant myself permissions including subfolders, only to find that the half-downloaded game had already been deleted before I got there. I didn't need to barge into that folder after all, so I closed it and thought nothing of it.
Later that day, I read stories about how barging into that folder can break Windows, so I panicked and changed the permissions back to TrustedInstaller including subfolders, with a lot of errors along the way(Failed to enumerate something.)
Rather peculiarly, everything still works fine, as far as I can see. I opened games, the Microsoft Store, and even the calculator, everything opened seemingly without any issues.
I have several questions:
My PC has random freezes/restarts when it's under load, could that somehow be related to me having peeked inside that dreaded folder?
Is it alright if I just move on, as if nothing happened? Or should I utilize this, just in case?
If nothing seems broken on my computer after I messed with permissions, then would this risk breaking something?
Is there some hidden damage currently present from my mistake?
I want to know precisely how screwed I just made myself, even if nothing looks screwed on my PC.
I didn't use the command prompt at all, and that folder isn't on the boot drive, could either of those things be factors in why nothing seems wonky?
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Nov 8, 2024
Rundown on how it happened:
I stopped a game from downloading midway through, and I falsely assumed that there would be a half-downloaded game stuck on my PC. Without thinking, I found a tutorial(Someone had posted it on the Microsoft website) on how to delete a half-downloaded game, and it required me to wrestle my way into that dreaded folder.
I had gone into the security settings to grant myself permissions including subfolders, only to find that the half-downloaded game had already been deleted before I got there. I didn't need to barge into that folder after all, so I closed it and thought nothing of it.
Later that day, I read stories about how barging into that folder can break Windows, so I panicked and changed the permissions back to TrustedInstaller including subfolders, with a lot of errors along the way(Failed to enumerate something.)
Rather peculiarly, everything still works fine, as far as I can see. I opened games, the Microsoft Store, and even the calculator, everything opened seemingly without any issues.
I have several questions:
My PC has random freezes/restarts when it's under load, could that somehow be related to me having peeked inside that dreaded folder?
Is it alright if I just move on, as if nothing happened? Or should I utilize this, just in case?
If nothing seems broken on my computer after I messed with permissions, then would this risk breaking something?
Is there some hidden damage currently present from my mistake?
I want to know precisely how screwed I just made myself, even if nothing looks screwed on my PC.
I didn't use the command prompt at all, and that folder isn't on the boot drive, could either of those things be factors in why nothing seems wonky?
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: