Does anything actually need ESENT97?

[zZolaa]

Hi,

I always keep "MDAC" and "Jet Database Engine" because a bunch of programs won't work without those...

However, unlike those two, so far I think "Esent97" (Extensible Storage Engine) can actually safely be removed and everything will work.

Do you guys know of any programs that depend on it?

[TranceEnergy]

Hi,

I always keep "MDAC" and "Jet Database Engine" because a bunch of programs won't work without those...

However, unlike those two, so far I think "Esent97" (Extensible Storage Engine) can actually safely be removed and everything will work.

Do you guys know of any programs that depend on it?

Actually you're wrong about both. It's just that nlite removes it in a way that isn't good. I don't know what nlite does exactly, but just about everything JET concerned is easily deletable and i haven't noted any side effect to that.

I don't know of anything that uses esent97.

[Slinkie]

I'm not sure if ESENT97 and ESENT are the same thing,

but there is no ESENT97 on my nlited and further manually

stripped WINXP PRO. I removed ESENT and the only thing

I noticed was that the modem/network icon in the System Tray

disappeared. So at least ESENT is needed for lights.exe to

work. Probably much more to it but that's a reply to your question.

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