Remove Outlook Express & Windows Media Player

[Dj-Throll]

Hello.

Can someone please tell me how to remove Outlook Express and Windows Media Player on Windows server 2003 ?

I don't want these installed on my servers.

can someone please help me ?

Dj-Throll

[demlak]

take a look at this: http://home.earthlink.net/~vorck/

[sleepnmojo]

I'm not sure if they are to different from xp, but the way I do it is

%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\shmgrate.exe OCInstallHideOE
%SYSTEMROOT%\INF\unregmp2.exe /HideWMP /SetShowState

[catwalker63]

This won't remove the app from your server but it will get rid of those annoying shortcuts:

To make Outlook Express icon never appear again:

Run Regedit

Open: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{44BBA840-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C}

Delete Stub Path

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6} for Windows Media player?

OR

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\>{22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95}

[oioldman]

I know for windows 2k and xp it isn't possible to remove them as they are integral components, you can only suppress the usage of.

If you do manage to do it will break things like outlook as it need OE as mail program and also whe you apply IE updates it will re-install OE.

Been a few other topics in MSFN relating to these and most people have decided it isn't worth the hassle and just suppress.