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Microsoft: Windows 'inetpub' folder created by security fix, don’t delete
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this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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Please, this is Windows. That's been sitting in the source code since 1993, but nobody at Microsoft knows why or how to remove it, so they just tell you to not touch the folder.
Yea, like they said. 12 years ago.