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[Seloka]

Can someone pls explain to me what the main purpose of the windows.h header does

[Stewbond]

Windows.h is your gateway to EVERYTHING windows. That's one of the reasons it's so good, but mostly the reason why it sucks so much as there is no namespacing and it is really easy to accidently create collisions with variable names.

It will lead you into threads, process management, filesystem stuff, accessing ports, win32 graphics, registry access, and many many many more things.

[AliDh]

Windows.h is a header that includes many other header files, which you'll need them (perhaps only some of them) to create your program.