Automated background removal was also added recently.

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        11 months ago

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

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          11 months ago

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

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      11 months ago

      I thought so too. I remember looking for alternatives for when it would be removed completely.

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      11 months ago

      They did. I guess the community outcry was so loud even Microsoft had to heed it and reverse course.

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      11 months ago

      I read that WordPad also was being discontinued, in the same article stating the same about MS Paint iirc