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Windows, in all its versions, including the latest available today on the market, Windows 10, has a habit of creating temporary and hidden folders, whenever it has a problem when starting the operating system, or when it starts working. erratically. These folders, depending on the reason for which they were created, can occupy a large amount of space on the hard drive, space that sometimes we want to allocate for other purposes, such as storing movies, photographs of our trips, videos of our pet. or our son's end of the year ... for whatever reason it is valid to remove that type of folder (* 10 *) s.

La herramienta que Windows pone a nuestra disposición para eliminar esta carpeta no nos posibilita deshacernos de ella, por lo que debemos ir al root directory del sistema, unidad C, donde está la carpeta de la que estamos hablando en este post $ SysReset, una carpeta que It is created when we have had problems starting our team. (* 10 *)

First of all, note that all folders that start with the dollar symbol, They are hidden natively in the operating system (* 10 *) In this way, they will only be shown if within the Folder Options we have enabled the option to Show hidden files, folders and drives. If you do not have it activated, you will not have the option to see, or in any case have access, that folder to be able to delete it.

Once we are on top of the folder and we have chosen, we just have to drag it to the recycle bin. Being a folder that the system has used, Windows It will ask us for the user password (* 10 *) to confirm that we are the legitimate users of the account in which we are performing this action. Once we enter the password, the procedure will be completed and the folder ¢ SysReset, or any other folder that begins with the dollar symbol will disappear from our computer.