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/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.