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by fuzzfactor 848 days ago
Not merely the limited functionality of WinPE or WinRE.

It's "Windows-to-Go", introduced in Windows 8.0 which had the full Windows functionality contained on the USB stick, if the bootable stick met the high-performance requirements and had firmware indicating to Windows that the USB stick was not a "Removable Device".

This was gradually deprecated for the most part:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/...