# How to delete system created topics on hosted instance?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-delete-system-created-topics-on-hosted-instance/193226>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 8, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-delete-system-created-topics-on-hosted-instance/193226 "2021-06-08T23:24:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![ondrej](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ondrej/32/198804_2.png) [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 12:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-delete-system-created-topics-on-hosted-instance/193226/2 "2021-06-09T12:21:47Z")

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Hi,

You can’t delete these topics eg. ‘About the Lounge category’ as they are from pre seeded categories. Apparently you can delete these by setting a topic timer via the topic admin wrench? However, I’m not sure if anything funky would happen (I’ve never tried).

> [@bcardarella](#):
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> trial hosted instance and suspect I don’t have that type of access.

That’s correct.

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