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; Base Services: Provide access to the fundamental resources available to a Windows system.

Included are things like file systems, devices, processes, threads, and error handling.

These functions reside in < tt > kernel. exe </ tt >, < tt > krnl286. exe </ tt > or < tt > krnl386. exe </ tt > files on 16-bit Windows, and < tt > kernel32. dll </ tt > on 32-bit Windows.