[userbinator]

In contrast, a pure Win32 Hello World (with GUI) can be 2KB or less with only the addition of some non-default linker options.

That's 3 orders of magnitude difference. Obviously it won't be as much with more complex applications, but it's still funny to see others here considering a dozen MB or so for doing something trivial to be small, when that's the size of a full installation of Windows 3.11 complete with all its built-in apps.