• SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Nah, more like deleting explorer.exe.

      There’s isn’t really a Windows equivalent for this, as Windows doesn’t give you control on this level.

      It’d be as if you could delete services.msc but also the runner behind it.

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        7 months ago

        I did delete explorer.exe on an earlier iteration of Windows (possibly 98SE). I’ve just restored it with Windows Commander (now TCMD).

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      7 months ago

      But system32 contains the NT kernel as well, so that’s worse. Uninstalling your init system on a Linux distro still leaves you with single user mode. You could probably reinstall an init system from there.

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      On Debian you can actually change init systems. Don’t know how hard it is and you are probably meant to install a new one after removing systemd, but it is possible at least.