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

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          I honestly didn’t realize I had been installing it… I went to boot paint.net and was surprised I couldn’t find it on my work computer… that’s how critical it is… or how often I don’t change personal hardware

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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.

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