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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you remove mspaint.exe then Windows will refuse to boot. It's true, I knew a guy!

[โ€“] Aux 4 points 1 year ago

Jokes aside you can boot Windows without Windows at all. By that I mean you can boot Windows NT without Win32.