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> A lot of software breaks when you're not running 4kb pages.

The page size on windows is 64kb as well so portable software already needs to deal with supporting 4kB and 64kB pages.

No the page size on Windows is 4kb, however some things like file mapping do require 64kb alignment, due to ancient compatibility concerns with DEC Alpha.

Depends on the architecture. Windows on Itanium runs with 8KB pages for example, but that's the exception that confirms the rule.

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