diff --git a/src/cascadia/TerminalSettingsModel/BaseApplicationState.cpp b/src/cascadia/TerminalSettingsModel/BaseApplicationState.cpp
index 3b5c02446..378043c82 100644
--- a/src/cascadia/TerminalSettingsModel/BaseApplicationState.cpp
+++ b/src/cascadia/TerminalSettingsModel/BaseApplicationState.cpp
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ winrt::hstring BaseApplicationState::FilePath() const noexcept
 void BaseApplicationState::_read() const noexcept
 try
 {
+    // Use the derived class's implementation of _readFileContents to get the
+    // actual contents of the file.
     const auto data = _readFileContents().value_or(std::string{});
     if (data.empty())
     {
@@ -77,6 +79,9 @@ try
 
     Json::StreamWriterBuilder wbuilder;
     const auto content = Json::writeString(wbuilder, root);
+
+    // Use the derived class's implementation of _writeFileContents to write the
+    // file to disk.
     _writeFileContents(content);
 }
 CATCH_LOG()
diff --git a/src/cascadia/TerminalSettingsModel/ElevatedState.cpp b/src/cascadia/TerminalSettingsModel/ElevatedState.cpp
index f7d72207e..de8136571 100644
--- a/src/cascadia/TerminalSettingsModel/ElevatedState.cpp
+++ b/src/cascadia/TerminalSettingsModel/ElevatedState.cpp
@@ -23,47 +23,8 @@ namespace winrt::Microsoft::Terminal::Settings::Model::implementation
     // Returns the application-global ElevatedState object.
     Microsoft::Terminal::Settings::Model::ElevatedState ElevatedState::SharedInstance()
     {
-        // TODO! place in a totally different file! and path!
         static auto state = winrt::make_self<ElevatedState>(GetBaseSettingsPath() / stateFileName);
         state->Reload();
-
-        // const auto testPath{ GetBaseSettingsPath() / L"test.json" };
-
-        // PSID pEveryoneSID = NULL;
-        // SID_IDENTIFIER_AUTHORITY SIDAuthWorld = SECURITY_NT_AUTHORITY;
-        // BOOL success = AllocateAndInitializeSid(&SIDAuthWorld, 1, SECURITY_LOCAL_SYSTEM_RID, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, &pEveryoneSID);
-
-        // EXPLICIT_ACCESS ea[1];
-        // ZeroMemory(&ea, 1 * sizeof(EXPLICIT_ACCESS));
-        // ea[0].grfAccessPermissions = KEY_READ;
-        // ea[0].grfAccessMode = SET_ACCESS;
-        // ea[0].grfInheritance = NO_INHERITANCE;
-        // ea[0].Trustee.TrusteeForm = TRUSTEE_IS_SID;
-        // ea[0].Trustee.TrusteeType = TRUSTEE_IS_WELL_KNOWN_GROUP;
-        // ea[0].Trustee.ptstrName = (LPTSTR)pEveryoneSID;
-
-        // ACL acl;
-        // PACL pAcl = &acl;
-        // DWORD dwRes = SetEntriesInAcl(1, ea, NULL, &pAcl);
-        // dwRes;
-
-        // SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR sd;
-        // success = InitializeSecurityDescriptor(&sd, SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR_REVISION);
-        // success = SetSecurityDescriptorDacl(&sd,
-        //                                     TRUE, // bDaclPresent flag
-        //                                     pAcl,
-        //                                     FALSE);
-
-        // SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES sa;
-        // // Initialize a security attributes structure.
-        // sa.nLength = sizeof(SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES);
-        // sa.lpSecurityDescriptor = &sd;
-        // sa.bInheritHandle = FALSE;
-        // success;
-
-        // wil::unique_hfile file{ CreateFileW(testPath.c_str(), GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE, &sa, CREATE_ALWAYS, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, nullptr) };
-        // THROW_LAST_ERROR_IF(!file);
-
         return *state;
     }