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Except it would be like damaging your brain so it would still be able to use the nerves' input until you went to sleep, then your brain would reset and it wouldn't know what to make of the inputs, effectively reducing you to the capabilities of a newborn baby, probably worse.
The computer is still fine. Unless you physically tamper with the hardware, this comparison does not hold up. The operating system is really just a standadised way for the software to interact with the hardware. So messing with it, is like giving somebody unclear instructions. Which might be annnoying, but is not cruel in of itself.
What if instead of simply deleting the files, you corrupted them instead? As in mixing some of the binary data up to see what happens, say with Vinesauce ROM corruptor (which works on any file). Windows just crashing at the end is boring. I want to see it actually burn.
You want to see the computer burn instead of crash?? Not gonna happen by corrupting the files, sadly. If you want to see the computer burn, try burning down your home.
Nothing would happen as the drivers are loaded into RAM on system start up. So the PC will continue to function normally, regardless of how the drivers stored in ROM are manipulated. Manipulating the binary data in RAM however could make for some interesting results.
Yes, Window loads drivers into memory at boot so deleting the files might not have an immediate effect. This reminds me of a similar issue I had some time ago, with a 'user'. For some reason he had local admin rights on his machine. He had seen all the anti-trust stuff around Microsoft at the time. So, believing Microsoft was spying on him, he opened Regedit and went about deleting every reference to Microsoft. As you can imagine, his machine didn't live long.
This sounds right. It is also why one can zero out the partition table and you will not notice it until you reboot. Simply put, it is stored in memory.
Hardware drivers for sure are loaded into RAM upon boot. The system naturally should not be looking on the non volatile drive for drivers every time an interrupt occurs. Deleting the source does not do anything until you reboot, but I guess you figured that out. Actual system files is a different matter. They get loaded as per needed and some (quite a few indeed), based on complexity and range of functionality are accessed on the disk during operation, in order to minimize RAM consumption.
Although, it is possible to force a driver to reload. If you press Ctrl+Shift+WIN+B, you can force Windows to manually restart your graphics driver. This is useful for if a fullscreen game crashes and holds the system hostage.
drivers are loaded into memory ( usually at startup ) and remain active even when you remove the actual files, but when you reboot ! bam the system boot process cannot find anything to load.
The funny thing about deleting drivers in modern windows, is that given that a lot of them don't need to be in constant execution or in open communication with whatever task they are required to, so, the OS won't crash or behave weirdly until you try to do something specific.... But, man, when he deleted the .Net folders, I was watching a developer's nightmare...
If you didn't know, Video Game Consoles also have drivers, all of them are hard burned into the system except for the Wii, which has something identical to drivers, called IOS (Input Output System) if your Wii is modified you can actually delete this files. You can also replace an IOS with a modified IOS so that your Wii could read DVDs or burned Wii ISO.
Hey I noticed you blur text by pixelating the information. I don't know if you know this but there has been decent amount of work done with machine learning in de-pixelating text. I know it's pretty niche and nothing's perfect but I just want to bring some light to this.
Everything that is connected by USB usually provides their own drivers.( == Plug&Play) That's why the whole "Bad-USB" debacle happened 5-10 years ago. USB-Peripherals have a small ROM which provides Meta- & Driverdata
Simply destroying the system (unless you have stuff like shared folders) by deleting files won't cause any negative impact to your actual computer, but it is theoretically possible (not at all common in actuality) for malware to escape the hypervisor.
Gday Joe first off thanks for the consistently informative and entertaining videos. I'm a 40y.o noobie only taking interest in computers in the last 2yrs. And I regret taking so long because I haven't been this excited to learn in a long time. Long time. I do know video/audio production though and mate imo your a natural in front of camera. Did it come easy to you or was it a steep curve like the one I'm on ATM? Thanks again I've picked up so much useful information from your channel
5:53 This always happens to me! Every time I scroll down to the end of the Window, it just keeps on scrolling! This could probably end up in me deleting precious files!
Unfortunately, deleting just the files wile windows is running will usually not see any immediate effects, because all required driver files are loaded into RAM of any process, to get around this restart the VM [Obviously this will just re-install the files]
The way windows handles drivers is just weird coming from team Microsoft. On a linux distro. You can delete the whole /usr/lib/modules and reboot. It will still boot up but your hardware will start behaving strange. Like the mouse touchpad will become extra sensitive when moving the mouse. Or how about you may lose audio. The reason why your system still works is because your Linux distro stores its drivers inside of the linux kernel's init ramdisk and gets unpacked every time you boot up your machine. The /usr/lib/modules are its extensions of the kernel's core drivers. This is so it makes it easy to update the modules without having to rebuild the kernel. Although you can delete the kernel is one way to delete the drivers. But the issue there, you also deleted the kernel, so don't reboot lol. And even then, you can put it all back and it will reinstall its modules and it be like nothing has happened. No data loss, no reinstalling the whole os either. This is where the true differences really begins to show when comparing windows to linux. Heck, just the way a linux distro updates stuff, that alone blows away windows update many times over hands-down. Its simply too seamless that i had to turn off auto updates just to see the packages that are about to be updated lol.
I just built my first pc and when I was looking at the task manager I saw a process called windows file explorer. I was confused because I didn’t have the file explorer open, so I decided to end the task. My whole screen went black except for the task manager, and I subsequently tried mashing control z to try and undo it. Obviously this didn’t work, so I restarted the system and it was fine after that. The computer was definitely accessing drivers, and os related files/information. I learned pretty quick not to go ending tasks in the task manager without knowing exactly what they do first. 😂
This selection scroll freezing bug is a bug in FE as far as i know. It could be related to the drivers as it usually happens when explorer doesnt get updates from the storage medium the directory is located in. e.g. very common on external HDDs that went to sleep or have much IO to do at that moment
Can you do a video on what to do if a hacker corrupts the drivers including the ones in the backup folder, how would you go about fixing it? Can you restore the originals again from the CD?
I am not sure about Windows but in Linux all the drivers are copied to memory when the device boots so deleting them won't matter until you restart the computer.
Hey anyone has a fix?? So i deleted my sound driver in sound video game controllers and now I don’t have any sound when I click “show hidden devices” sound video game controller doesn’t show up and I have no audio device any fix??
when thioJoe types .inf instead of *.inf to search only inf files and not folders. me:mad edit:also why ThioJoe doesnt use ctrl+a to highlight everything
What if I was having a problem with the browser, I think it was after applying Adobe Acrobat for PDFs , so I could not email my trainer at work, soooo I decided to try a reset , then now I have the issue of removed apps ? I looked in the recycle bin and I tried to get one of the apps that way , but the app is not working, so do I need a recovery software ???? To get those apps back ????😮
Deleting all drivers on Windows can cause your computer to stop functioning properly. Drivers are essential software components that allow your computer's hardware to communicate with the operating system. Without drivers, your computer may not be able to recognize or use certain hardware components, such as your keyboard, mouse, printer, or graphics card. If you accidentally delete all drivers on your system, you may need to reinstall them or restore your computer to a previous system restore point to fix the issue.
I accidentally deleted my video driver trying to update it but windows wasn't letting me so tried to uninstall then install a new version but I just messed up my windows and it kept blue screaming I did have dual boot on it so wasn't such a big disaster
Well obviously it did not have any problems, because the drivers are usually loaded into RAM and only get reloaded if you restart. Or if you use some seldomly used components of it
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@@Gautam-tk8tf you can schedule a video to go public from private, when it’s private only he can view and comment on the video
E
Dont update youtube app in android
because it shows dislike count
and at this when i comment the video there are no dislike in this video
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Imagine you're the computer and someone starts deleting your drives. It will be like removing your -nerves and muscles- memories one by one ☠️
Except it would be like damaging your brain so it would still be able to use the nerves' input until you went to sleep, then your brain would reset and it wouldn't know what to make of the inputs, effectively reducing you to the capabilities of a newborn baby, probably worse.
The computer is still fine. Unless you physically tamper with the hardware, this comparison does not hold up.
The operating system is really just a standadised way for the software to interact with the hardware. So messing with it, is like giving somebody unclear instructions. Which might be annnoying, but is not cruel in of itself.
@@Blankult I was thinking the same as you. It's like deleting memories one by one.
lol
@@Blankult thats dementia
I tried this on 7 pro about 2 years ago and fixed itself witth no problem 🐱
nice
Noice
🐱
oh my god
@Flick EVERYWHERE
Do i get more FPS from doing this?
yes
@@gfljs2100 do NOT listen to this person, they are lying. The answer is obviously yes
yep
Yes ignore GLF
Yes
What if instead of simply deleting the files, you corrupted them instead? As in mixing some of the binary data up to see what happens, say with Vinesauce ROM corruptor (which works on any file). Windows just crashing at the end is boring. I want to see it actually burn.
windows probably wont be affected by it and would just stop working
Corrupting them would cause them to be unable to load because the checksums and signatures would be invalid.
You want to see the computer burn instead of crash?? Not gonna happen by corrupting the files, sadly.
If you want to see the computer burn, try burning down your home.
@@annarkhi maybe try gasoline
Nothing would happen as the drivers are loaded into RAM on system start up. So the PC will continue to function normally, regardless of how the drivers stored in ROM are manipulated. Manipulating the binary data in RAM however could make for some interesting results.
Yes, Window loads drivers into memory at boot so deleting the files might not have an immediate effect. This reminds me of a similar issue I had some time ago, with a 'user'. For some reason he had local admin rights on his machine. He had seen all the anti-trust stuff around Microsoft at the time. So, believing Microsoft was spying on him, he opened Regedit and went about deleting every reference to Microsoft. As you can imagine, his machine didn't live long.
This sounds right. It is also why one can zero out the partition table and you will not notice it until you reboot. Simply put, it is stored in memory.
This user is the kind of person Mac exists for.
@@SilentProti no. He deserves chrome os
HAHAHHAHAHHA
Sounds like something I did when I was about 10 and decided to delete DOS files that you couldn't run from the command line, lol.
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Hardware drivers for sure are loaded into RAM upon boot. The system naturally should not be looking on the non volatile drive for drivers every time an interrupt occurs.
Deleting the source does not do anything until you reboot, but I guess you figured that out.
Actual system files is a different matter. They get loaded as per needed and some (quite a few indeed), based on complexity and range of functionality are accessed on the disk during operation, in order to minimize RAM consumption.
Although, it is possible to force a driver to reload. If you press Ctrl+Shift+WIN+B, you can force Windows to manually restart your graphics driver. This is useful for if a fullscreen game crashes and holds the system hostage.
drivers are loaded into memory ( usually at startup ) and remain active even when you remove the actual files, but when you reboot ! bam the system boot process cannot find anything to load.
It’s called VISUAL studio code not virtual
Do a one on "What if you delete registry folders" I think that could boost up your viewers.
I actually did do one like that
@@ThioJoe oh I guess I missed that one🤔
@@ThioJoe give lInk
@@andreacorrea5921 i gave the link bro
btw the link i gave was a troll lol
The funny thing about deleting drivers in modern windows, is that given that a lot of them don't need to be in constant execution or in open communication with whatever task they are required to, so, the OS won't crash or behave weirdly until you try to do something specific....
But, man, when he deleted the .Net folders, I was watching a developer's nightmare...
What does it do tell me about it !!
.NET files are basically newer versions and more advanced versions of INF files
And they do more stuff in modern windows
@@winindowsdows what are inf files?
@@anxiousearth680 info files
Yes, the drivers are loaded into RAM on boot up and contribute a fair bit to the 2GB or so of memory that is reserved to the Operating System.
If you didn't know, Video Game Consoles also have drivers, all of them are hard burned into the system except for the Wii, which has something identical to drivers, called IOS (Input Output System) if your Wii is modified you can actually delete this files. You can also replace an IOS with a modified IOS so that your Wii could read DVDs or burned Wii ISO.
ohh that's why i saw a vid that was like "installing ios on wii" i was so confused when i saw it (i thought it meant the ios from apple)
Video idea deleting as many files on windows as possible, while still keeping it partially usable.
Hey I noticed you blur text by pixelating the information. I don't know if you know this but there has been decent amount of work done with machine learning in de-pixelating text. I know it's pretty niche and nothing's perfect but I just want to bring some light to this.
Timestamp?
Basically deleting the drivers will stop everything except the cpu, HDD, memory and kernel. But the usb hubs will stop if the bios is legacy
I am curious what happens when you delete all windows files and then try to go to Windows update and try to get them all back
The Windows installation destruction vids are the best
Everything that is connected by USB usually provides their own drivers.( == Plug&Play) That's why the whole "Bad-USB" debacle happened 5-10 years ago. USB-Peripherals have a small ROM which provides Meta- & Driverdata
Neat this came out recently since I just got a new graphics card and needed to install the driver for it
Could you ever break the hypervisor of a virtual machine by deleting the system files in a way that would negatively impact your computer?
Simply destroying the system (unless you have stuff like shared folders) by deleting files won't cause any negative impact to your actual computer, but it is theoretically possible (not at all common in actuality) for malware to escape the hypervisor.
I think you just proved what we have all known for years. Windows is extremely bloated and has a lot of unnecessary code filling up the drive.
..... did you not see the fact that it immediately crashed when booting up?
Did you miss the part where windows couldn't boot up afterwards?????
You get a free downgrade to windows 10 if you do that 😂
Theojoe:deletes all drivers
Windows:” mr bill gates I don’t feel so good “
Gday Joe first off thanks for the consistently informative and entertaining videos. I'm a 40y.o noobie only taking interest in computers in the last 2yrs. And I regret taking so long because I haven't been this excited to learn in a long time. Long time. I do know video/audio production though and mate imo your a natural in front of camera.
Did it come easy to you or was it a steep curve like the one I'm on ATM?
Thanks again I've picked up so much useful information from your channel
ThioJoe: Don’t try this at home
Me: Goes to Walmart and tries it
My man's back with another classic
you can use ctrl + a to select all files in a folder
5:53
This always happens to me! Every time I scroll down to the end of the Window, it just keeps on scrolling!
This could probably end up in me deleting precious files!
6:33 ah yes my favorite coding software, Virtual Studio Code
Unfortunately, deleting just the files wile windows is running will usually not see any immediate effects, because all required driver files are loaded into RAM of any process, to get around this restart the VM [Obviously this will just re-install the files]
The way windows handles drivers is just weird coming from team Microsoft. On a linux distro. You can delete the whole /usr/lib/modules and reboot. It will still boot up but your hardware will start behaving strange. Like the mouse touchpad will become extra sensitive when moving the mouse. Or how about you may lose audio.
The reason why your system still works is because your Linux distro stores its drivers inside of the linux kernel's init ramdisk and gets unpacked every time you boot up your machine.
The /usr/lib/modules are its extensions of the kernel's core drivers. This is so it makes it easy to update the modules without having to rebuild the kernel.
Although you can delete the kernel is one way to delete the drivers. But the issue there, you also deleted the kernel, so don't reboot lol. And even then, you can put it all back and it will reinstall its modules and it be like nothing has happened. No data loss, no reinstalling the whole os either.
This is where the true differences really begins to show when comparing windows to linux. Heck, just the way a linux distro updates stuff, that alone blows away windows update many times over hands-down. Its simply too seamless that i had to turn off auto updates just to see the packages that are about to be updated lol.
The WD folder can be deleted if you turn off the tamper protection in Windows Defender settings
bro that mouse you showed at 2:00 is the exact one I have, except black
I don't know why you don't use it, but you could press CTRL + A to select everything
You can speed up the selection of deleting but doing ctrl+A which selects all
Notice how the rounded corners went away shortly after he started deleting stuff
There are some problems with the closed captioning where "quotes have raw HTML formatting".
You're probably just trolling, never encountered that issue before
@@Nick12_45 I wish I was.
I just built my first pc and when I was looking at the task manager I saw a process called windows file explorer. I was confused because I didn’t have the file explorer open, so I decided to end the task. My whole screen went black except for the task manager, and I subsequently tried mashing control z to try and undo it. Obviously this didn’t work, so I restarted the system and it was fine after that. The computer was definitely accessing drivers, and os related files/information. I learned pretty quick not to go ending tasks in the task manager without knowing exactly what they do first. 😂
what virtual mashine do you use ??
VMware
This selection scroll freezing bug is a bug in FE as far as i know. It could be related to the drivers as it usually happens when explorer doesnt get updates from the storage medium the directory is located in. e.g. very common on external HDDs that went to sleep or have much IO to do at that moment
If you delete all the drivers, you'll not be able to travel in the car
nice joke
yay, my favourite application “virtual studio code”
It culd be that drive drivers and GPu drivers, just were completely killed by WUDF closing.
Can you do a video on what to do if a hacker corrupts the drivers including the ones in the backup folder, how would you go about fixing it? Can you restore the originals again from the CD?
if only this video came out 3 days ago, tried to turn on VBS so i deleted the incompatible drivers and bsod
i would've done it differently:
pause vm
mount virtual disk to windows
delete folders
unmount virtual disk
unpause
It can't drive anymore
… Did you expand the loc in "inf_loc" as "location" instead of "localization"?
Love this one TOO and I subscribed!
I tried it out. I have a bunch of free cars now
great video as usual
Hey, Joe!
That scrolling effect does the same to me too.
5:54 that happens to me all the time!
Can you try to get a fatal error????? I think that would make a great video idea
Delete in the Command Prompt in Notepad in File in Open in Advanced Options
where can you get the registry thing to get ownership of a file
I was literally studying dude
You made me distract
Whatever the video was awesome👀
How do you add the chapters to your video? I'm trying to add my own chapters to my video, but they won't show up.
I think drivers were still mostly loaded in the memory, and that’s why it didn’t kill it before rebooting.
Ay I did not watch until the moment he said it LOL
if you delete drivers ?
No one left to drive the information highway ?
i think drivers were loaded in Ram that why nothing happen if restart VM before deleting last file
i don't think it would start normally
Did any one notice that after deleting some drivers, the rounded corners dissapeared??
Windows: wait where are the drivers?!
me and the boys trolling the teacher be like:
I am not sure about Windows but in Linux all the drivers are copied to memory when the device boots so deleting them won't matter until you restart the computer.
do what happens if you end all the processes/services
Why not use ctrl + A to select all files in a directory?
It's alot faster than ctrl scroll and clicking
Hey anyone has a fix?? So i deleted my sound driver in sound video game controllers and now I don’t have any sound when I click “show hidden devices” sound video game controller doesn’t show up and I have no audio device any fix??
well when I updated windows 10 all the drivers disappeared of my laptop so I had to reinstall windows and the same thing happened
What type of Virtual Machine do you use?
The scrolling thing happened to me a lot, even though I wasn't trying this.
when thioJoe types .inf instead of *.inf to search only inf files and not folders. me:mad
edit:also why ThioJoe doesnt use ctrl+a to highlight everything
What if I was having a problem with the browser, I think it was after applying Adobe Acrobat for PDFs , so I could not email my trainer at work, soooo I decided to try a reset , then now I have the issue of removed apps ? I looked in the recycle bin and I tried to get one of the apps that way , but the app is not working, so do I need a recovery software ???? To get those apps back ????😮
The option to pin my comment is not there when I tap the 3 dots ?
Deleting all drivers on Windows can cause your computer to stop functioning properly. Drivers are essential software components that allow your computer's hardware to communicate with the operating system. Without drivers, your computer may not be able to recognize or use certain hardware components, such as your keyboard, mouse, printer, or graphics card. If you accidentally delete all drivers on your system, you may need to reinstall them or restore your computer to a previous system restore point to fix the issue.
I accidentally deleted my video driver trying to update it but windows wasn't letting me so tried to uninstall then install a new version but I just messed up my windows and it kept blue screaming
I did have dual boot on it so wasn't such a big disaster
whose ideia was to make "syswow64" store 32 bit stuff and "system32" store 64?
Well obviously it did not have any problems, because the drivers are usually loaded into RAM and only get reloaded if you restart. Or if you use some seldomly used components of it
0:14 yes what other fun could there be other than crashing your PC and having to buy windows 10 pro again LOL
If the license is linked to your Microsoft account, you should be able to hopefully reuse the windows pro license. Doesn't always work though.
@@bernardonegri5416 "Doesn't always work though."exactly
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Linux has better protection for drivers because most of 'em are kernel modules
How do you fix external ssd drive not functioning
What is the virtual machine software are you using?
VirtualBox
what virtual machine do you use?
6:30 everything was working because all the drivers were in the bin. So they weren’t really deleted. 😊
I can picture system32 with 64-bit for backwards compatability since this folder have been there since forever, but then why syswow64
6:10 that has happened to me on a windows 11 VM too
1:50 bro thats my old mouse
What would happen if we plugged in a pendrive or a headphone to the virtual machine after deleting the drivers? 🤔
Probably a notification that the last device he plugged in malfunctioned
@@Nickwilde7755 Yeah you could be right🤔
you ,that right you ,Few
Yo thio do a video on your family and your life and that kind of stuff(basically I mean a bio)
Windows safe mod? Can you play games in safe mode?
How do you have tiny pixel on your cursor?, Also how to get your cursor on laptop?
Bro I don't know why but my laptop fall from 7cm and came a blue screen that tell 0xc000009e something what to do
uhh porbaly your hard drive is broken
Hmm, deleting drivers nothing happeneds just boosts FPS in CSGO! (Ironic!)
you could have put a portable linux file as cd-rom and deleted the windows files that way
6:30 Run Virtual Studio Code?