Originally Posted by
KarmaEcrivain94 I bet that if Microsoft got rid of all that legacy stuff (not only in Shell32.dll), they could lighten Windows 10 by a few hundred megabytes... You've got stuff like screenshots of the win99 (or 98) taskbar

And what then happens to software that references resources in Shell32.dll and other files? If you can access it, how many software packages do too? How much world wide screaming are we willing to endure in exchange for a few hundred megabytes of disk space saved?
It's not happening. In that sense the Win32 environment is damned to be bloated until the end of its days. At least I can't think of any way out.