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[–] 1 point 3 months ago

They're not hardcoded, you can take ownership of the files with commands (takeown and icacls). As some other user already mentioned, there are ways to start a command prompt as the SYSTEM user. Windows will still not let you delete them however, because most of them are being used by processes.

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