How sturdy is windows 7?

[Maximilian]

Im talking about deliberately trying to wreck it. You could delete command.com and autoexec.bat in windows 98 and that stopped it from booting again from what i remember. You could probably drag C: into the recycle bin and wreck it... i was too scared to try back then.

So how much sturdier is windows 7? I just tried and it wont let me put C: in the recycle bin 😛 Is it vulnerable to having files deleted by the user? Or is it much more difficult to actually break it?

Also what is that 100mb partition it always creates?

 

[lord_emperor]

UAC will stop you.

Until you click OK.

 

[sivart]

Let's see, if I boot from an Ubuntu Live CD, I can delete the Windows folder, it also doesn't stand up to an FDISK command...not very "sturdy" to me 😉

 

[Cogman]

UAC is really the only layer added on to stop you from seriously screwing yourself over.

 

[SickBeast]

I think the 100mb partition is where it puts the boot profiling data to help your computer start up faster.

 

[Aluvus]

So how much sturdier is windows 7? I just tried and it wont let me put C: in the recycle bin 😛 Is it vulnerable to having files deleted by the user?

IIRC, Windows XP and later keep "extra" copies of most critical system files and can restore them if you do something dumb.

 

[Maximilian]

IIRC, Windows XP and later keep "extra" copies of most critical system files and can restore them if you do something dumb.

Aha cool, so if i go into the windows folder and tear things up, i might break a lot of stuff but windows will probably still boot because it will restore the critcal files windows needs to run.

 

[shortylickens]

I think the basic Win7 installation should be on a ROM. Fast boot and no fucking with it.
All the stuff you do aside from that should go to the hard drive.
Of course, any time they release a service pack you need a new ROM.

 

[Modelworks]

Even not using UAC , go ahead and try to delete critical system files. Windows will restore them without asking you. It is called windows file protection.

Windows File Protection (WFP) prevents programs from replacing critical Windows system files. Programs must not overwrite these files because they are used by the operating system and by other programs. Protecting these files prevents problems with programs and the operating system.

WFP protects critical system files that are installed as part of Windows (for example, files with a .dll, .exe, .ocx, and .sys extension and some True Type fonts). WFP uses the file signatures and catalog files that are generated by code signing to verify if protected system files are the correct Microsoft versions. Replacement of protected system files is supported only through the following mechanisms:
Windows Service Pack installation using Update.exe
Hotfixes installed using Hotfix.exe or Update.exe
Operating system upgrades using Winnt32.exe
Windows Update

 

[wirednuts]

in my carpc, i have had plenty of bluescreens and lockups at the worst possible times (while booting, while shutting down...) and win7 is absolutely better then xp at recovering itself.

xp can usually be saved by doing system repairs and such, but its all manual. win7 just does it. if it cant start, it will try to fix itself and it usually does. win7 has also seemed to be quite a bit better at it then vista was too.

 

[MaxBurn]

With win7 type "reilability" in the start menu search and hit enter. This gives you an idea of how stable the system is and a far better idea of what is creating problems than reading log files ever will imo.