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Originally Posted by Glorfindel
You can remove it in Windows but it is kind of a lot of monkeying around  |
I'll take your word for it. What isn't clear is why you would bother, other than to demonstrate it can be done.
Along those lines, noted Windows expert Mark Russinovitch managed to boot Windows with
no services running. Microsoft's official line is that it can't be done. Mark did it. Granted, you can't actually
do anything in Windows with no services, but he was able to get it to boot.
I experimented at one point in a different direction. You can install Linux and run it in a pure command line environment, and not
have a GUI. The GUI is a layered program running on top of the OS. In Windows, it's baked into the OS. It
is technically possible to boot Windows to a command line, by diddling the registry to tell it the shell is CMD.EXE, but it's problematic actually doing anything if you do.
If you ran Mac OS "Classic" - versions before OS/X - there
was no command line. You did everything from the GUI. OS/X has one, but few Mac users ever touch it.
It's possible to get to a command line in Android. I use Jack Palevich's open source
Android Terminal Emulator, which is an Android equivalent of rxvt. The version of Android on my device includes a truncated version of Busybox, which provides an assortment of commands bundled in a single executable. I installed a larger and more complete version, and have most of the standard Linux commands available.
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Dennis