Sounds like the OS is put together with duct tape if deleting an empty folder can break things so easily
Deleting random stuff from your system that the OS put there, because “it’s empty so surely it is fine”, is generally not a recipe for success.
Neither is putting random system files/folders in the C: drive outside of where they need to be, like in the Windows folder
Yeah… This reeks of stupidity, though. It’s a folder used by iis but you need it even if iis isn’t installed.
Yeah. It’s not even a matter of “do you need it.” I don’t need both /var/tmp and /tmp. I only need one. But, if I respond to that by deciding to delete one or the other, some stuff will fuck up. That’s how computers work.
I feel like this is parody and I’m not getting the joke.
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I’m just being serious. If your software has some files and directories, and you start fucking with them, it might react badly. It doesn’t really matter if you feel like the existence or layout of them is unjustified in some way. Just let them be, or else switch to some other software, or else take responsibility for making sure stuff won’t break from you fucking with them. Those are the options. “Delete it on purpose and then whine about how it shouldn’t have been set up that way in the first place, if stuff breaks” isn’t one of the options.
Also, it’s kind of a side note, but it’s also weird to me that this is the hill to die on that Windows is up to something. Yes. It’s been openly spying on you, degrading its own functionality for amusement, and hijacking your computer to do messed up stuff for a long time. Making an empty directory in the root of C: isn’t something you need to get any level of panicked about in addition. There’s other stuff you can worry about.
I’m just being serious. If your software has some files and directories, and you start fucking with them, it might react badly. It doesn’t really matter if you feel like the existence or layout of them is unjustified in some way. Just let them be, or else switch to some other software, or else take responsibility for making sure stuff won’t break from you fucking with them. Those are the options. “Delete it on purpose and then whine about how it shouldn’t have been set up that way in the first place, if stuff breaks” isn’t one of the options.
“Never delete anything on your computer because it might be needed”?
This isn’t “some random directory” as you’ve claimed before. It’s a specific directory used by IIS. It’s akin to /var/www for apache. If you uninstalled apache you would, and should, delete /var/www to cleanup afterwards.
If you uninstall IIS you should be able to delete C:\inetpub to cleanup.
That it causes a security problem you didn’t know about is not your fault. It’s Microsoft’s fault. That is a stupid bug to have and they need to fix it properly.
“Never delete anything on your computer because it might be needed”?
No. That’s a whole new sentence.
I gave two other options, besides that one option.
Also, even within the one option, if at some point I upgraded my Linux system and I got an empty /var/www directory, it would never in a million years occur to me to say “Well that’s stupid I don’t want that directory” and remove it.
I might think it’s stupid that it’s there when I don’t have apache. But, deleting it because it’s stupid that it’s there… you know what? I feel like I already addressed this with the /tmp and /var/tmp example. I can feel that it’s stupid that there’s two of those instead of one. I might be right. You’re not wrong about it being silly that MS has done this. But reacting to that feeling by deleting things until my system matches how I think they should have set things up is a recipe for broken stuff.
I’ve reiterated this point three times now, which is enough. You seem committed to not absorbing it. Good luck with your computers in the future. I hope your system administration philosophy serves you well.
Uh oh, someone hardcoded c:\inetpub in their code 12 years ago.
Please, this is Windows. That’s been sitting in the source code since 1993, but nobody at Microsoft knows why or how to remove it, so they just tell you to not touch the folder.
Yea, like they said. 12 years ago.
You’re telling me that enterprise CTOs trust this company to run their entire IT infrastructure?
