Don't install Telnet service

[ponghy]

Hi guys!

I did a search for "telnet service" but I only found how to disable it. I would want to know if is there any chance for installing Windows XP SP2-integrated WITHOUT the Telnet service (not disabling it or removing it phisically from the CD with nLite or similar tools).

Thanks for your help

[Yzöwl]

The Telnet service is Disabled by default in your version of Windows anyhow!

The easiest way is to delete the service

sc delete tlntsvr

in the run box should do it!

The following are all the Telnet service dependencies:

"SystemRoot\system32\GDI32.DLL"
"SystemRoot\system32\KERNEL32.DLL"
"SystemRoot\system32\MSVCRT.DLL"
"SystemRoot\system32\NTDLL.DLL"
"SystemRoot\system32\NTLSAPI.DLL"
"SystemRoot\system32\OLE32.DLL"
"SystemRoot\system32\OLEAUT32.DLL"
"SystemRoot\system32\PSAPI.DLL"
"SystemRoot\system32\RPCRT4.DLL"
"SystemRoot\system32\TLNTSVR.EXE"
"SystemRoot\system32\USER32.DLL"
"SystemRoot\system32\WS2_32.DLL"
"SystemRoot\system32\WS2HELP.DLL"

If you wanted to completely remove Telnet you would have to ascertain which of the above were unique only to that service and remove those.

<Edit>

From my tests, no other service has the following depencencies

"SystemRoot\system32\NTLSAPI.DLL"
"SystemRoot\system32\PSAPI.DLL"
"SystemRoot\system32\TLNTSVR.EXE"

However more programs may depend on the dlls.

Your safest bet would to be delete the service using sc.exe as above. You could delete telnet.exe from system32 if you feel the need.

</Edit>

Edited August 10, 2005 by Yzöwl