Corrupted windows

[Konstant]

Does a windows gets corrupted by installing games? 

 

[Prodigy_Smit]

4 minutes ago, Konstant said:

Does a windows gets corrupted by installing games? 

 

What? No

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Anything can corrupt windows, but this will almost definitely not corrupt windows. Hell technically booting windows could corrupt it.

[TetraSky]

Usually, the only way for Windows to actually get corrupted, would be if your storage medium is dying out and parts of windows happened to be on a bad sector/dead flash (Or a virus, but the ones that plainly destroy windows and do nothing else are rarer these days. It's usually things like self-duplicating keylogging trojan or cryptolockers now)

Games installing registry files or whatever won't "corrupt windows" by themselves...

 

That said, Windows can "break" if a driver is bad. If a game install some prerequisite stuff and they cause some compatibility issues... among other things.

[MusicBadger]

On 9/23/2020 at 10:20 PM, TetraSky said:

Usually, the only way for Windows to actually get corrupted, would be if your storage medium is dying out and parts of windows happened to be on a bad sector/dead flash (Or a virus, but the ones that plainly destroy windows and do nothing MyGroundBiz else are rarer these days. It's usually things like self-duplicating keylogging trojan or cryptolockers now)

Games installing registry files or whatever won't "corrupt windows" by themselves...

 

That said, Windows can "break" if a driver is bad. If a game install some prerequisite stuff and they cause some compatibility issues... among other things.

Thanks for the clarification

[homeap5]

If by corrupted you mean broke then yes, in some rare cases it's possible, but mostly by anti piracy / cheating protections used in old games. I must use once second system to repair my main system when I wanted to check old game that install old starforce protection. Driver for that protection makes windows not bootable (spinning circles loop and/or bsod).

 

But if you're talking about new games and concern about quantity of installing software, then no - you can have 1000 games installed and that will be ok (if you have enough amount of space).