Automated background removal was also added recently.

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

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

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      No. Wordpad is the one being discontinued. Paint is one of several programs that can now be uninstalled from Windows by end users without any special tricks.