Windows 10 – Toddler Deletes Everything with 6 Clicks

by scolfax on 7/30/2015, 7:13:25 PM with 10 comments
OK, it's a click-bait title, but check this out: You're only 6 clicks away from wiping out your Windows 10 installation.

Starting from the Desktop, click on: Start / Settings / Update & Security / Recovery / Get Started (Reset this PC) / Remove Everything

You are never asked to enter a password, or type in "Remove Everything" as a fail-safe.

  • by stevep98 on 7/30/2015, 7:39:46 PM

    > You are never asked to enter a password, or type in "Remove Everything" as a fail-safe.

    Some people will still do that and be surprised at the result.

    My dad once reformatted his memory card on his camera, losing all his pictures from his vacation. He wanted to 'Change the Format' of the image (why? who knows), but instead he reformatted the card. "Are you Sure? Yes!"

    I once copied an empty partition over a full partition instead of vice versa. I knew I only had one copy of this important data, and was trying to back it up. Are you sure? double-check.. YUP!

  • by venomsnake on 7/30/2015, 7:16:48 PM

    Well just ask the advertisers and they will give you all your files back. If they refuse - there is always a copy in the NSA worry not.

  • by brudgers on 7/30/2015, 8:46:53 PM

    Let's assume that there are only ten options at each level of clicking.

    Thus a probability of 1 in (10^6 * the chance of your toddler getting unsupervised access while the computer is on and in an accepting state).

  • by jjgreen on 7/30/2015, 7:17:43 PM

    You should never have given him/her the root password.

  • by bwackwat on 7/30/2015, 7:48:30 PM

    I LOL'D.