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What is the SYSTEM group in Windows 7?

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Mar 15, 202625095 views

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I want to disallow access to a drive in Windows 7, to all the users except myself (admin). So I have deleted all the users and groups in the drive's Security dialog but I am not sure whether I should also delete the "SYSTEM" group or not. If I delete it, does it mean that Windows won't have access …

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The account is used by most Windows services (via ). Removing it won't prevent the Windows kernel from accessing the drive, but it might break some services that do it.

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