[nananana9]

At 8 years I recycled filesystem directories. I didn't know you can create new folders, so when I needed one I grabbed a random one from C:\Windows, moved it to my desktop and deleted its contents.

[desertrider12]

That’s funny. When I was little I found “format” in my mp3 player’s settings. Thought it would customize the UI or something, but instead I ended up with no music for the rest of the road trip.

[jdthedisciple]

Makes total sense, it used to be called "Recycle Bin" after all!

[whamlastxmas]

I wonder if Microsoft did focus group testing and found understandably computer illiterate people were concerned about "trashing" files meant they were somehow permanently using up HDD space

[geoffbp]

Worked ok til it was a system dir and the system wouldn’t boot anymore? :)

[jdefr89]

No better way to learn System32 folder was essential is Windows than by destroying your family computer by removing it.

[energy123]

I deleted the files from there to free up disk space

[fragmede]

I don't need autoexec.bat or config.sys! it's got some garbage in there that I don't understand, so it must not be important.