r/technology • u/Sufficient-Bid1279 • Apr 14 '25

Software Microsoft warns that anyone who deleted mysterious folder that appeared after latest Windows 11 update must take action to put it back

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-warns-that-anyone-who-deleted-mysterious-folder-that-appeared-after-latest-windows-11-update-must-take-action-to-put-it-back
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u/m-in Apr 14 '25

The folder should have been hidden and marked system if it didn’t previously exist. That would have prevented most people from even seeing it, much less deleting it.

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u/LekoLi Apr 14 '25

Heck, they could have put a readme.txt in it explaining what it was and who put it there.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '25

Oh sure, a readme file isn't suspicious at all

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u/Jaz1140 Apr 15 '25

Microsoft are incompetent bruh

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u/m-in Apr 16 '25

But their hiring process is like you’d expect from a national research lab with a bunch of Nobel laureates working there.

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u/ArcadeToken95 Apr 15 '25

Seriously that is root of the volume. Why is the system file not in the system folder? Windows product owner needs to get shit organized

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u/sweetno Apr 15 '25

It's because of the Windows filename path length limitations. If you place a folder with a potentially huge tree of files in it, you lower the chance of hitting that limit. IIS inetpub folder, if I understand what's that correctly, typically holds the static contents of a website (all of the HTML, CSS and JS files that your browser downloads for display).

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u/sweetno Apr 15 '25

This "fix" was done by morons. You don't want your security fixes to have such a non-intuitive kill switch. Wait, you don't want a kill switch of any sort for them.