Recently, I have been experimenting with the integrity of various operating systems. Out of those, Windows 95 seems quite unique. Continue reading to find out more.
Sometimes, viruses downloaded from the great internet have a mind for destruction. Windows is one of the most popular operating system platforms, so viruses are fairly common for them. Having made (but not distributed or used {hacking is bad. don't do it. I only made them for myself to see how different OS's work. Don't be me.}) a few viruses and malware packages myself, I know there are several very easy ways to destroy a computer. However, I took the long way and manually deleted as many files as I could. The results were as follows:
Windows 3.1: after deleting a couple of miscellaneous files in the WINDOWS directory, the screen simply went to a blank black screen with a flashing cursor in the top left. I could not type or reboot, so I considered it done.
Windows 95: after deleting nearly 3/4ths of all files en-masse (by just deleting folders full of stuff and not going through everything) it actually sped up! After the astonishment faded, I tried to run a few programs and files and as expected, they didn't work. I proceeded to go through every folder and delete all files that I could, but it did entirely prevent me from doing so on about 1/4th of those with no way around it. Not even closing the processes and programs would allow me to delete them and simply outright refused even a superuser or administrator command. The operating system still worked perfectly after nearly everything was deleted, so I restarted and it refused to boot. It gave me a blue screen and said something along the lines of "Core system files missing or corrupt. Unable to boot." Yeah, that was expected.
Windows 98: about the same as 95, but the command prompt was able to defeat it and allow me to delete more files. It didn't crash, but it did refuse to boot.
I stopped after Windows 98, as I was fairly sure that after that, Windows put in some protection against deleting core files. I know it is still quite easy to do, but I simply did not want to take the time to try. So what does this tell us? Well, it seems like Windows 95 is one of the most stable versions of Windows, at least as far as still working without it's contents is concerned.
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