What If You Delete the Windows Registry?

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  • Опубліковано 3 гру 2024

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  • @havanachica1365
    @havanachica1365 5 років тому +1792

    “Do not try this at home”
    *takes computer outside*

  • @LapisMinecraft
    @LapisMinecraft 6 років тому +912

    When you delete it:
    Registry: "Mr. Win32…"
    Registry: "I don't feel so good"

    • @abdelrahman3259
      @abdelrahman3259 6 років тому +5

      😂😂😂

    • @slav_-9179
      @slav_-9179 6 років тому +4

      I Don't wan't go

    • @LoLingVo
      @LoLingVo 5 років тому +7

      He is deleted so he can't say anything

    • @godie1110
      @godie1110 5 років тому +4

      @@LoLingVo DDLC much?

    • @saedesu4973
      @saedesu4973 5 років тому +3

      You should have gone for the head

  • @barnosho1611
    @barnosho1611 6 років тому +575

    It seems like you didn't notice the registry backup files had a filesize of 0KB, that must be the reason they didn't fix anything.

    • @bevan9661
      @bevan9661 6 років тому +7

      wow xD

    • @daniel_2
      @daniel_2 6 років тому +14

      I thought the same.

    • @TomGreene
      @TomGreene 6 років тому +9

      Came here to say the same thing.

    • @kpo8718
      @kpo8718 6 років тому +3

      Because registry sometimes does not use any storage

    • @DrHarryT
      @DrHarryT 6 років тому +12

      If it EVER did not use ANY storage, windows would not run.

  • @segazi8287
    @segazi8287 4 роки тому +676

    "do not try this at home"
    *well school is a place with pcs*

  • @CarlTheNPC01
    @CarlTheNPC01 Рік тому +14

    ThioJoe: *Do not try this at home.*
    Me: _does it at school_

  • @Xeno_Bardock
    @Xeno_Bardock 6 років тому +528

    I have accidentally overwritten Windows 7 registry with Windows 98 registry before. Had to reinstall. This was during GTA Vice City registry patch. Should have checked .reg file before executing it lol.

    • @liquidmagma0
      @liquidmagma0 6 років тому +22

      rip

    • @Danny_Aniss
      @Danny_Aniss 6 років тому +65

      Whoeveer made that .reg file is the most evil person on the planet :')

    • @ThioJoe
      @ThioJoe  6 років тому +106

      F

    • @JesusMeza3
      @JesusMeza3 6 років тому +29

      *F* but in bold

    • @kagz76
      @kagz76 6 років тому

      nice *CaC*

  • @thoomin6680
    @thoomin6680 6 років тому +1809

    *Thats a lotta damage*

    • @ThioJoe
      @ThioJoe  6 років тому +199

      RIP

    • @thoomin6680
      @thoomin6680 6 років тому +41

      ThioJoe RIP indeed

    • @novathepug6692
      @novathepug6692 6 років тому +33

      Only the almighty flex seal can fix this mess

    • @thoomin6680
      @thoomin6680 6 років тому +12

      Nova The Pug exactly..where’s Phil when we need him!

    • @theguythatlies505
      @theguythatlies505 6 років тому +16

      Let’s put some *FLEX TAPE*

  • @shadowslayer205
    @shadowslayer205 6 років тому +327

    Windows: "I don't feel so good..."

    • @DragonProtector
      @DragonProtector 6 років тому +4

      nah your fine jsut keep deleting and you be good to go

    • @justinx.4206
      @justinx.4206 5 років тому +1

      Mac: I finally did it! Ha ha ha

    • @Win_eXPerience
      @Win_eXPerience 5 років тому +1

      @@justinx.4206
      **opens terminal**
      sudo rm -rf /

    • @ell_playah
      @ell_playah 4 роки тому +1

      stolen

    • @galaxxy_step
      @galaxxy_step 4 роки тому +1

      Says the Person with protogent Profile pic 😂😂😂

  • @strikerplayz_roblox4920
    @strikerplayz_roblox4920 5 років тому +340

    Joe : Do not try this at home
    Also Joe : *tries it at his home*

    • @wen5942
      @wen5942 5 років тому +20

      He has VM machine (dont woooosh me karma whores)

    • @Win_eXPerience
      @Win_eXPerience 5 років тому +14

      @@wen5942
      r/woooosh
      You can't escape the woooosh

    • @MinePlayersPE
      @MinePlayersPE 4 роки тому +12

      @@wen5942 you assume all wooooshers actually care about reddit enough to know what karma means?

    • @Joro_kit
      @Joro_kit 4 роки тому

      in backyard

    • @mepnet
      @mepnet 4 роки тому

      @@wen5942 he's still in his home

  • @helyxmusic
    @helyxmusic 5 років тому +92

    4:30 that's because you deleted the SSD / HDD drivers, and now it's using the (much) slower legacy drivers

    • @truliny-xyz
      @truliny-xyz 3 роки тому +1

      yes

    • @xtremispubg8959
      @xtremispubg8959 3 роки тому +1

      Do even hdd ssd have drivers

    • @helyxmusic
      @helyxmusic 3 роки тому +3

      @@xtremispubg8959 of course, any hardware device needs some kind of drivers for windows to communicate with it

    • @helyxmusic
      @helyxmusic 3 роки тому +3

      @@xtremispubg8959 most of the time Windows comes preinstalled with old, basic drivers that support all hard drives, but they're very slow

    • @agaveboy
      @agaveboy 3 роки тому +1

      @@helyxmusic I hate the microsoft basic display adapter.

  • @Colin12475
    @Colin12475 6 років тому +334

    What would happen if you tried to put the Recycle bin into the Recycle Bin?

    • @ThioJoe
      @ThioJoe  6 років тому +164

      We were so preoccupied with whether or not we could, that we didn’t stop to think if we should.

    • @greymoon6720
      @greymoon6720 5 років тому +19

      Goes in a D drive partition for some reason on Windows XP, has the recycle bin icon and is called recycled bin. Really odd.

    • @synthetic_creature
      @synthetic_creature 5 років тому +55

      The recycling bin collapses in on itself and forms a small black hole in your computer

    • @bobboo101
      @bobboo101 5 років тому +11

      ERROR 404
      69.exe has crashed

    • @GenericLifts
      @GenericLifts 4 роки тому +14

      What would happen if you tried to put the My Computer into the Recycle Bin?

  • @Architector_4
    @Architector_4 6 років тому +217

    6:40 All of those backup files have 0KB size. I guess the installation was so fresh it didn't have a moment to actually make a proper registry backup, so there were empty files instead. And, well, you replaced registry files that still had something in them with completely empty 0KB ones, and you broke it even more. lol

    • @tranceonline
      @tranceonline 6 років тому +13

      yeah! No one sees that. A good backup would have fixed it!

    • @Architector_4
      @Architector_4 6 років тому +4

      Well, still doesn't exclude the fact that it was obvious this backup wouldn't help from the very moment it was on screen.

    • @NazmusLabs
      @NazmusLabs 6 років тому +5

      PikachuPL registry is backed up as part of System Restore feature, to my understanding. I would ensure system restore is turned on for your PC if you are seeing no registry backups

    • @hmmhmmhmm789
      @hmmhmmhmm789 6 років тому

      *NUT*

    • @Nighterlev
      @Nighterlev 6 років тому +2

      +PikachuPL
      Wrong. Windows back up files aren't 0kb files after months of using windows 10 lulwat?

  • @Xeno_Bardock
    @Xeno_Bardock 6 років тому +252

    Windows registry = file system within file system.

    • @hmmhmmhmm789
      @hmmhmmhmm789 6 років тому +2

      dam dud he didnt like ur comment

    • @JeordieEH
      @JeordieEH 6 років тому +18

      You guys clearly don't know what a database is. He even said in the video that it's basically a database for all of windows settings. Your feeble minds turned it into the nearest thing you could associate since you seen drop downs and folder icons. The windows registry hive is presented like that with a graphical tool to make for easy navigation, it's a structured set of data with settings presented to you with a gui.

    • @multiapples6215
      @multiapples6215 6 років тому +3

      Jeordie White r/iamverysmart

    • @ov3rcl0cked
      @ov3rcl0cked 6 років тому +6

      I mean, I'm pretty familiar with how databases work. I've written a DB implementation based on an AVL tree. Filesystems themselves are pretty damn similar a lot of the time. Mostly some kind of serialized tree structure on disk. The registry is very similar to the structure of a regular filesystem, although the key value pairs are restricted to a given type. So as far as I'm concerned, it's pretty much a filesystem within a filesystem, where files can have a restricted type. The access pattern would be the same, as the means to query data would be to follow a path rather than to actually query contents or keys, which is very similar to a database. It's seemingly more similar to a filesystem than a DBMS, and it's indexing would probably be very similar based on their nearly identical access patterns. Regardless filesystems within filesystems isn't uncommon, there are a lot of virtual filesystems, especially in unix and linux.

    • @xonirix
      @xonirix 6 років тому +1

      file system within file system within file system

  • @MATAM29
    @MATAM29 3 роки тому +48

    A better way to delete the registry is to delete the files itself that contain the hives. They are located in %systemroot%\System32\Config. Other registry-specific files are %userprofile%\Ntuser.dat, which contains user-specific data and %userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat, which contain per-user file associations.
    EDIT: After I saw that ThioJoe used the "backup" of the registry hives that are 0 KB large files to "restore" the registry, he essentialy "deleted" the registry.

  • @rain2322
    @rain2322 5 років тому +4

    The computer needs a doctor. CALL THE AM-BU-LANCE!

  • @YonatanAvhar
    @YonatanAvhar 6 років тому +30

    5:19 YESSS which one breaks Edge?

    • @towsif_8_128
      @towsif_8_128 5 років тому +1

      Yonatan Avhar nooooo I wanna know that

  • @bx19tgd
    @bx19tgd 6 років тому +90

    Not too bad if it breaks anything though.
    You can just fix it with flex tape, right?

    • @marsrover69
      @marsrover69 6 років тому +1

      Scientific Stevie yes
      Yes it will
      YeY

    • @maxmcleod4128
      @maxmcleod4128 6 років тому

      0101010101010101010101010101010101101010101010101010101010101010101

    • @clickhereidareyou5950
      @clickhereidareyou5950 6 років тому

      yeah

    • @stelchrys
      @stelchrys 6 років тому +1

      Not flex tape hot glue fixes everthing

    • @sar1784
      @sar1784 6 років тому

      Scientific Stevie NO! It's not like 5he time you broke your sword toy and fixed it with flex tape! Your breaking virtual things that are VITAL!

  • @gregr1578
    @gregr1578 5 років тому +70

    3:28 - My first heart attack

  • @narpyarchive
    @narpyarchive 5 років тому +34

    Thiojoe: Don’t try this at home
    Me: ok
    Also me: _Tries at work

  • @Jens_Tech
    @Jens_Tech 2 роки тому +1

    "Do not try this at home"
    Well... School has computers.

  • @KingJellyfishII
    @KingJellyfishII 6 років тому +59

    *D O W N L O A D M O R E R A M*

  • @multiapples6215
    @multiapples6215 6 років тому +58

    Why do I always feel like you’re a mixture of Jacksfilms and LinusTechTips

  • @archim3des627
    @archim3des627 6 років тому +44

    game THIOry
    what happens when you
    *delete system32 and windows registry at the same time?*

    • @saedesu4973
      @saedesu4973 5 років тому +8

      Computer will explode

    • @eeveelover5280
      @eeveelover5280 5 років тому

      🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

    • @md.shahjadali8173
      @md.shahjadali8173 5 років тому

      A Big Explosion

    • @lokiaston9770
      @lokiaston9770 4 роки тому

      Blue screen of death. Or maybe that’s if you delete both the windows file and the registry.

    • @cherryldomingo9312
      @cherryldomingo9312 3 роки тому

      well basically your computer is just fking dead

  • @GeoBaer
    @GeoBaer 4 роки тому +8

    I love that the RegBack files in the folder are just 0 KB lol

  • @thatlostshape8397
    @thatlostshape8397 4 роки тому +6

    "Do not try this at home"
    *takes computer with me into my car*

  • @Honza368
    @Honza368 6 років тому +34

    I really love this new style of "what if" videos you are making, because its everything that I ever wondered about Windows made into an entertaining video! Please continue this and keep up the good work my man!

  • @oscarnagy199
    @oscarnagy199 6 років тому +135

    Y’all remember when this guy made videos on how to download more ram?

    • @opextgb
      @opextgb 5 років тому

      Oscar Nagy did he???

    • @lirraci
      @lirraci 5 років тому +2

      TheGamerBoy1192 ye

    • @lad2987
      @lad2987 5 років тому

      yes

    • @melkiorwiseman5234
      @melkiorwiseman5234 5 років тому +15

      That was when he was starting out and was trying to make a joke channel. Nowadays, he's generally a tad more serious and tries to give information which is actually useful.

    • @victorius2975
      @victorius2975 5 років тому

      But you can do that but you won't get more you can give games extra gb's of ram but you will still have your same GB's

  • @RobbieStarburster
    @RobbieStarburster 6 років тому +8

    There's likely no significant amount of warnings for the registry editor because it's pretty hard to get to it accidentally and figures you know what you're doing.

  • @abenezertena6441
    @abenezertena6441 2 роки тому +7

    I love your efforts just to show us cases. Great effort Thanks

  • @owenchamberlain-davies8508
    @owenchamberlain-davies8508 4 роки тому +13

    Thio Joe : DONT try this at home
    Me : too late

  • @normalhuman5603
    @normalhuman5603 6 років тому +65

    Time to delete System31, and Door Registry.
    What else?

  • @magicweaponr072
    @magicweaponr072 6 років тому +15

    I remember I was following a tutorial on how to do something in registry and then I deleted the wrong folder that I should have and it ruined basically every executable, I somehow managed to look up the internet that very specific folder with its keys and reconstruct it. phew.

    • @letmego4181
      @letmego4181 3 роки тому

      Can you help me i did that too my graphics driver and its ruined i vant back up doesnt work :(

    • @xinhui990312
      @xinhui990312 3 роки тому +1

      @@letmego4181 have you solved the problem?

    • @letmego4181
      @letmego4181 3 роки тому

      @@xinhui990312 actually i did but it comes with a cost but it was worth it if you have discord i can add ypu and we can call over it

  • @minniema8180
    @minniema8180 5 років тому +7

    ThioJoe: don’t try this at home
    Me: **trys it at my cousins house**

  • @matthewmcewen1
    @matthewmcewen1 3 роки тому +1

    Those backup files were 0kB so I doubt they would do anything. Probably they got cleared shortly after you deleted the originals.

  • @CraigCruden
    @CraigCruden 6 років тому +5

    It was funny. I was working for a company about 15 - 20 years ago and after development getting DLLs from a repository and registering new versions there was a lot of bloated unused stuff in the registry. One of our 'more brilliant' developers 'Nole' wrote his own regclean application to clean up the crap left in there. He walked over with it on a floppy and gave it to a more senior developer and said he had tested it etc. The person took the floppy, and his word and ran it on his computer... and that was the end of that computer. The regclean apparently completely (I mean completely) deleted everything out of the registry so the OS could no longer find parts of the OS itself. It is a story that lives on -- long after the person left...

  • @Zelsad
    @Zelsad 6 років тому +21

    What if you set everything in the registry to 0

    • @Riley-qu8ig
      @Riley-qu8ig 6 років тому +2

      That's basically the same as deleteing

    • @ixalaz4536
      @ixalaz4536 6 років тому +6

      I tried going into the registry in a vm and after I deleted some folders I started changing everything to 69. It showed the same error as in the video when booting up.

    • @dovesveins333
      @dovesveins333 6 років тому

      @@ixalaz4536 nice

    • @zaqr7222
      @zaqr7222 5 років тому

      @@ixalaz4536 nice

    • @zaqr7222
      @zaqr7222 5 років тому

      @@ixalaz4536 try changing everything to 420

  • @chewcodes
    @chewcodes 6 років тому +16

    "Nothing is working!"
    How is this different from normal windows I'm lost

    • @paristath6773
      @paristath6773 3 роки тому

      Me too.

    • @quackerman234
      @quackerman234 3 роки тому

      its an application that you can have a windows installation in ur pc without changing ur main pc

    • @paristath6773
      @paristath6773 3 роки тому

      @@quackerman234 you didnt get it

    • @quackerman234
      @quackerman234 3 роки тому

      @@paristath6773 wait is he saying that basically windows never works

    • @paristath6773
      @paristath6773 3 роки тому

      @@quackerman234 yes

  • @circleubuntu
    @circleubuntu 4 роки тому +7

    Windows registry: HKEY
    Me: huh KEY

  • @timheersma4708
    @timheersma4708 3 роки тому +1

    I have a program I got years ago (more designed for network computers) and it was called RegTool (not related to any of the virus programs or current programs of the same name) It allowed the user to search across keys and values, delete/replace globally across the registry, create/backup restore different versions of the registry and compare registries (presumably to diagnose a faulty computer I assume) My Windows 98SE had slowed down considerably over the years and I found quite quickly that uninstall does not remove many keys and values from the registry. I used this tool to search and remove them and then used a registry cleaner to mop up after. I ended up with at least half the number of keys and values and the speed was dramatically improved. It too had a disclaimer including an example someone that tried doing search and replace changing every instance of the word "Windows" with something else...the warning was "you WILL destroy Windows...count on it".

  • @KyleRice
    @KyleRice 6 років тому +135

    This is hilarious definitely going to have a bad day if you try this. Why don't for your next video see if you can use PowerShell to break windows

    • @boredboredmyles
      @boredboredmyles 6 років тому +1

      Commented posted 18 hrs ago! This video was posted 1 hr ago! HOW 😮

    • @synthesthea
      @synthesthea 6 років тому +2

      Hes a channel member so he gets videos early.

    • @boredboredmyles
      @boredboredmyles 6 років тому +1

      @@synthesthea OML that makes sooooo much sense 😂😂

    • @LiEnby
      @LiEnby 6 років тому +1

      rm -rf /*?

    • @KyleRice
      @KyleRice 6 років тому +1

      5 bucks gets you alot

  • @pennyandrews3292
    @pennyandrews3292 6 років тому +4

    I'm not sure deleting the whole registry from the registry editor is a good approach. I think what you'd want to do is just delete whatever files the registry is stored in completely (using another OS if needed), and get the same effect for a lot less work. That said, I wonder what parts of the registry could be deleted without making Windows unbootable? What would be the minimum configuration needed to get it running?
    I would say it's definitely possible to get that installation working again, though. The main thing keeping it from getting any further into the boot process is the total lack of understanding what kind of hardware it's even running on. Windows basically has no idea what kind of chipset drivers to even use to read the hard drive once control is handed off from the BIOS now. Deleting the registry now is like if you deleted the WIN.INI file in Windows 3.11 that tells Windows what video card driver to use, only worse because there's no DOS underneath it running IO.SYS.
    So if you really wanted to get the installation back, you would only need a working copy of the registry from an installation of Windows on equivalent hardware. The easiest way to get that would be to reinstall Windows on another hard drive using the same machine, then take that version of the registry and put it into the broken installation. Granted, you would have to do more work to get programs dependent on the registry that didn't come with Windows to work again, entering and creating a bunch of registry keys they require by hand, but it can be done.
    A fresh installation of Windows would certainly be easier, but if you can get access to the file system, you can fix it eventually.

  • @double-you5130
    @double-you5130 6 років тому +23

    6:25 if u did this on a fresh install you had to make sure system restore was on as those 'backup' registry files u used were ZERO Kb.
    you need to create a system restore point which gets created the minute u install an update or anything significant like office.
    so you could ha e fixed this, you jua5 didnt prep for the video i guess or simply sisnt know this little nuget of undocumented info
    also system restore is not always on by default on a fresh inatall of windows especially with the many flavours of 10
    from memory 1509 had it off after a fresh load but turned on after updating.
    had u ran system restore by invoking it from winpe you would have fixed this.
    wildows is pretty hard to break.

    • @ariel8856
      @ariel8856 6 років тому +1

      What language art thou speaking?

    • @HyonkTea
      @HyonkTea 6 років тому

      @@ariel8856 He is speaking in intelligence

    • @fatihyldz2283
      @fatihyldz2283 6 років тому +2

      He is speaking the language of gods.

    • @double-you5130
      @double-you5130 6 років тому +2

      @@fatihyldz2283 listen my son. thou shalt procure a new windows 10 iso and thou shalt test my word on a hyperv machine on said machine with said iso and thou shalt learn from thy lesson and pray thou not cross thy God's path.

  • @itsrobloxhere
    @itsrobloxhere 4 роки тому +6

    4:56 it wasn’t the registry it was *DUOLINGO!*

  • @alexmuse3565
    @alexmuse3565 7 місяців тому

    I love when error codes aren't specific and they're just like: I don't know man shits fucked up I don't know what to tell you you must have done something stupid.

  • @davinp
    @davinp 6 років тому +6

    The registry was introduced in Windows 3.11, but wasn't fully used until Windows 95. Windows is the only operating system, that I know off, that uses a registry. I am careful when I make a change in the registry.

  • @TheCupRamen
    @TheCupRamen 6 років тому +4

    That moment when you mess up your old notebook laptop and you deleted the UI itself so you have to use ctrl alt delete with the task manager to get around.

    • @tomyyoung2624
      @tomyyoung2624 6 років тому

      Yes too bad if it breaks anything though.
      You can just fix it with flex tape, right?

  • @Jimjolnir
    @Jimjolnir 3 роки тому +4

    It would be nice if RegEdit showed which program installed which key, or, if a key was modified, what the original setting was. Also would be nice if it showed which keys were made/edited by an admin/user. And if you could search for those things specifically.

  • @Muslim_011
    @Muslim_011 3 роки тому +1

    Those RegBackup was empty. Did anyone of you saw that?

  • @justasadmanforabanana4124
    @justasadmanforabanana4124 Рік тому +1

    5:47 that is a nightmare of a screen

  • @want-diversecontent3887
    @want-diversecontent3887 6 років тому +7

    I messed around with registry editor one day and somehow enabled the seconds on the clock.

  • @ShiyunoEditting
    @ShiyunoEditting 4 роки тому +18

    0:48 then i will try it at school

  • @ianharrison6597
    @ianharrison6597 6 років тому +11

    On the one hand, it's great fun to see what happens if the Registry is deleted. On the other hand, it's pathetic that one of the largest pieces of software in terms of lines of code, distribution, regular use at many different levels etc., relies on a virtually unprotected, outdated and poorly backed-up 'tissue paper' database.
    How old is Windows now (rhetorical question)? Old enough for under-grad kind of trash such as this to have been developed out of it. Is the Registry in the Enterprise edition so exposed to destruction?
    I use Erunt to back my Registry up at the start and end of each session. I keep the backups off-machine, but to be honest, I don't know that even Erunt saves the Registry in full, YMMV.

    • @encycl07pedia-
      @encycl07pedia- 6 років тому +1

      I could be wrong, but don't hackers want to USE victims' computers? Either as a botnet or for stealing information/redirect/ads/ransom. Destroying one computer doesn't seem to useful. Also, regedit requires admin privileges, virtually identical to sudo. You might as well say *nix is unstable/crap because sudo can delete /.

    • @tomyyoung2624
      @tomyyoung2624 6 років тому

      and YEPE!

    • @matthias18
      @matthias18 5 років тому

      @Ian Harrison Windows 1.0 was published in 1987 which was ~32 years ago

  • @இசையருவிஇசைகுழு

    Hey iam dhamu iam deleted mistakely some software keys registry i saw many more videos try to make default registry i can't reset on registry but ur told this video particular part 6:26 to 6:56 step work on reset thank you joe pls make helpful video, continued ur on job

  • @theaverageguy7111
    @theaverageguy7111 2 роки тому +1

    Looks like those REG backups were blank at 0 bytes.

  • @prohakerofficial
    @prohakerofficial Рік тому +7

    My friend was annoyed by Caps Lock, he used the Registry Editor to bind the Caps Lock function to F24. He also binded the Caps Lock key to a bunch of useful stuff that he normally would need keybinds for.
    For curious: F24 exists in Windows because of back compatibility, but the F12 - F24 keys do not exists in today's keyboards.

    • @aungaster1945
      @aungaster1945 Рік тому

      thanks. Now I have a new way to f up my pc. 😊
      And hate that thing too.

    • @Xnoob545
      @Xnoob545 Рік тому

      *f13 to f24

  • @Darknecros7
    @Darknecros7 6 років тому +4

    Going out of the realm of software, I’d like to see what happens if you open up your PC, take a wire and connect 1 end to one of the pins on a RAM chip, then touch the other end to random pins on the RAM chip. Same thing applies to other chips on the motherboard.

  • @zigafide
    @zigafide 6 років тому +55

    Discord squad

  • @HytenX
    @HytenX 3 роки тому +2

    Joe: Do not try this at home.
    Me on a virtual machine: You were saying?

  • @samuelthecamel
    @samuelthecamel Рік тому +1

    This is by far the easiest way to destroy a Windows installation

  • @Zregn3
    @Zregn3 6 років тому +70

    Can you do Linux stuff

  • @aaronager7537
    @aaronager7537 6 років тому +14

    Video starts at 2:39

    • @User-kr9bu
      @User-kr9bu 5 років тому

      ty

    • @phil9193
      @phil9193 5 років тому +2

      Gaming with GusGus369 no, it starts at 0:00
      NOTE: i was just joking

    • @1milkybee
      @1milkybee 4 роки тому

      @@phil9193 XD

  • @kjkardum
    @kjkardum 6 років тому +14

    Video idea: 10 DUMB Ways To Destroy Your Windows Installation
    I mean if you plan to reinstall windows you may want to destroy old one before formatting PC.

    • @Scrappi
      @Scrappi 6 років тому +6

      Dumb Ways To Die *Windows Edition*

    • @srccde
      @srccde 6 років тому +1

      Why would I want to destroy an old installation before reinstalling?

    • @user-yl3ti8jb6j
      @user-yl3ti8jb6j 4 роки тому

      @@srccde Why not?

    • @kjkardum
      @kjkardum 4 роки тому +1

      @Shakir GPYT why are you answering on a year old comment?

  • @Boon_LightBurn
    @Boon_LightBurn 3 роки тому +2

    Virtual machines are basically an operating system but it’s an app that behaves exactly like a brand new installation of windows

  • @KevinBenecke
    @KevinBenecke 5 років тому +1

    It's for reasons like this that if something bad was to happen to my computer that I right away ordered backup recovery software from my computers manufacture so I could do a factory reset if the worst was to happen. This way I don't have to pay a computer shop to reinstall my operating system. I always store my data on external storage. So I never have to worry about losing that info. And even so, every couple of years I like to do a fresh install of my operating system to help wipe out all the garbage that doesn't normally get deleted during normal maintenance cycles.

  • @lordtent3476
    @lordtent3476 6 років тому +14

    Hey thio try to run 100 viruses in your virtual machine

    • @tomyyoung2624
      @tomyyoung2624 6 років тому

      Yesne of this REGISTERS with my mind.

  • @nickgaming709mcpe4
    @nickgaming709mcpe4 4 роки тому +6

    Windows "uh what a great day"
    ThioJoe "deleting everything"
    Windows "why me"
    Gigabites "999999999 GB"
    Games "oof"
    ThioJoe "OK done"
    Windows "no don't do it"
    ThioJeo "presses button""bye Windows

    • @Mark_Master1
      @Mark_Master1 4 роки тому +1

      What

    • @cl4655
      @cl4655 4 роки тому +1

      i became dyslexic reading that

    • @xexpaguette
      @xexpaguette 4 роки тому +2

      For people who don't understand:
      Windows: *Hello! :)*
      ThioJoe: *I'm about to ruin this man's whole career*
      Windows: *:( Why me? I didn-*
      ThioJoe: Deletes everything
      Apps: *Noooooo*
      Games: *Noooooo*
      Free space: *helo*
      ThioJoe: `Deletes System32 *goodbye.*

  • @nickoates
    @nickoates 6 років тому +18

    RIP Windows Registry
    April 1992 - August 2018

  • @a.k_theportal3085
    @a.k_theportal3085 3 роки тому

    The 1:46 example of keys and values is equivalent to variables, Variables have a name(key), and some data(value) to store in itself

  • @svetlanavoitushenko6018
    @svetlanavoitushenko6018 2 роки тому +1

    My suggestion: What if you delete intel folder? or dell (acer, whatever computer you are using) folder? I'm pretty curious

  • @FarmYardGaming
    @FarmYardGaming 6 років тому +4

    None of this REGISTERS with my mind.

  • @thesneakysleuth6484
    @thesneakysleuth6484 5 років тому +5

    “Real life demonstration”... proceeds to use virtual machine.

    • @rerease
      @rerease 4 роки тому

      He doesn't want to mess up his real computer

    • @dpadderz8671
      @dpadderz8671 4 роки тому

      Title: Deleting the whole windows registry.
      ThioJoe: What happens if you delete a bunch of registry values

    • @pathetic5036
      @pathetic5036 4 роки тому

      Who would waste a computer on a vid

  • @swan_kytiger
    @swan_kytiger 3 роки тому +3

    i wanna do this to school computers now lol

  • @boihellnaw
    @boihellnaw Рік тому +1

    7:16 ofc it aint a toy, THAS A LITERAL BOMB!!!!

  • @evanslawrence88
    @evanslawrence88 6 років тому +2

    You could have tried to repair the BCD from the Recovery command prompt using the command:
    BOOTREC /RebuildBCD

  • @infinitygalaxy8033
    @infinitygalaxy8033 6 років тому +23

    i forgot about registry i just watched what happens when you delete system 32

  • @nevimbrasko
    @nevimbrasko 4 роки тому +7

    My PC is faster after deleting System32

    • @Dikithefug
      @Dikithefug 3 місяці тому +1

      @@nevimbrasko real

  • @outdateduser7036
    @outdateduser7036 6 років тому +5

    What might it look like if you could delete every single file that *isn't* critical to running the system?
    Stuff like icon art and maybe secondary backup files

    • @kyokazuto
      @kyokazuto 6 років тому

      Torvic Is Santa lol it'd be kinda funny, usable but ugly

  • @rachelhagins1401
    @rachelhagins1401 4 роки тому +1

    RSOD is red BSOD is blue , oh! I think I just deleted system 32!

  • @PineappleWappleMinecraftVids
    @PineappleWappleMinecraftVids 3 роки тому

    5:50 At first when I saw that moving black dot on the computer screen, I thought there was an actual flying bug on my computer screen, but when I paused and replayed that part of the video, I realized that it's just part of the video and not an insect.

  • @ccvelcro4514
    @ccvelcro4514 6 років тому +4

    What if you deleted everything

    • @aprender1952
      @aprender1952 4 роки тому

      The boot partition would be practically unrecoverable, And you’d need a completely new setup.

  • @IronWall866
    @IronWall866 6 років тому +14

    Discord Squad

  • @corrupted7412
    @corrupted7412 6 років тому +7

    How to delete system32 on an iPhone??

    • @sashex3494
      @sashex3494 6 років тому +4

      Iphone doesn't have it, thats why Iphones are shit xD

    • @d_elxted-bloxburgtipstrick5893
      @d_elxted-bloxburgtipstrick5893 6 років тому +1

      @@sashex3494 android has system 9.0

    • @tobi-b
      @tobi-b 6 років тому +5

      @@sashex3494
      Neither does Android

    • @samelsby3333
      @samelsby3333 6 років тому

      Throw it out the door into the trashhhh

    • @corrupted7412
      @corrupted7412 6 років тому +1

      It was a joke everybody

  • @maxifire32
    @maxifire32 3 роки тому +1

    Me: deletes "computer" in the registry editor
    Computer: adios

  • @johndonaldson5126
    @johndonaldson5126 5 років тому +2

    This is great. Something I'd never attempt. Glad you did it for us.

  • @antonio-uz1uf
    @antonio-uz1uf 6 років тому +10

    5:39 🅱️

  • @user-wq3hu2pq4e
    @user-wq3hu2pq4e 6 років тому +3

    At least he didn’t delete roblox

  • @coompiler9029
    @coompiler9029 3 роки тому +1

    Yeah its all fun and games until you realize that you forgot to turn on your virtual machine

  • @earlfleer2723
    @earlfleer2723 5 років тому +1

    Do I have to buy a new computer for Win 10 or can I overwrite Win 7 on my current computer?

  • @Blueishhhhh
    @Blueishhhhh 2 роки тому +1

    What happens if you delete you're computer while it's running??

  • @Dumpy.38
    @Dumpy.38 4 роки тому +1

    What If You Delete SysWOW64
    And Hey 5:58 A BCD FILES ARE DELETED

  • @ShadowisAlive
    @ShadowisAlive Рік тому +2

    Have you tried putting the computer in rice?

  • @jonny6702
    @jonny6702 3 роки тому +1

    6:45 well yeah, of course the registry backup didn't do anything. You overwrote the registry with 0-byte files. You deleted even more of the registry, permanently by doing that. There was over 100MB of registry that you overwrote with empty files lol

  • @TheMMMification
    @TheMMMification Рік тому +1

    Could you make it bootable by pasting in the registry files from a different Windows installation?

  • @Nob-Stop
    @Nob-Stop 3 роки тому +1

    7:00 What happens when you insert a windows recovery disc?

  • @connorhorman
    @connorhorman 4 роки тому +1

    Deleting whatever you want may or may not work. However, I believe all the subordinate keys to HKC/HKLM are owned by Administrators, which is why you can delete them (regedit.exe is type-2 privileged process, so it will request elevation if the current user is a member of Administrators), as you are using a process token that is a member of Administrators. Certain entries in the tree though are owned by TrustedInstaller, so you have to take ownership to modify them directly.

  • @mdmackint
    @mdmackint 2 роки тому

    Thanks for cheering me up during times of having flu, my thio boi

  • @Alexandergamerteev
    @Alexandergamerteev Рік тому +1

    what vertal machine do you use thiojoe

  • @kiarashbahrami7219
    @kiarashbahrami7219 5 років тому +1

    TJ: Don't try this in home!
    Me: *watchin' this on my arch

  • @elyceo.4920
    @elyceo.4920 Рік тому +1

    what if you delete the entire
    windows drive?

  • @marksands8958
    @marksands8958 3 роки тому

    Very good videos. You pose questions that I wonder about, but that I don't have the nerve or knowledge to find out. In the process, I learn more from you about how to get the best out of my computer.