Elotemuygrande Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 Does anyone know of a way to remove "core" windows components such as Outlook Express, MS Messenger, and MSN Explorer from a perlscript/batchfile/etc(hopefully silently) after windows is already installed? I've obtained/written scripts and reg files for most common tasks and settings that we do now, but this one has me....Many thanks for your enlightenment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asin Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 Windows 2000 and Windows XP are very closely related, so this might work:http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=222444 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elotemuygrande Posted October 16, 2005 Author Share Posted October 16, 2005 THANKS! About to try this, it looks like exactly what we need Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanVM Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 Some components can be disabled via winnt.sif (see the MSFN Unattended Guide for more info on that). Otherwise, you'll probably have to use nLite to accomplish what you want to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asin Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Well, from what I can tell, Elotemuygrande wants to disable those components from the command line for computers that already have Windows XP set up.Disabling components using winnt.sif suggests an unattended XP installation which doesn't sound like what Elotemuygrande is after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elotemuygrande Posted October 17, 2005 Author Share Posted October 17, 2005 Yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to do, Asin. I'm primarily interested in removing Outlook Express, MS Messenger, and MSN Explorer, and probably the Zone games.This is what I'm trying:sysocmgr /i:C:\windows\inf\sysoc.inf /u:components.inf;components.inf[Components]OEAccess = Offpinball=offzonegames=offmsnexplr=offsolitaire = offspider = offfreecell = offpinball = offminesweeper = offWhen I try this it prompts for the XP install CD. I'm trying different permutations now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elotemuygrande Posted October 17, 2005 Author Share Posted October 17, 2005 Ughh, nothing in Add/Remove will continue until I can find the cinfo.xml file that it wants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanVM Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 (edited) Ah, I see now. I was apparently confused since we're in the Unattended Windows forum, not the general Windows XP forum.Anyway, there's always XPLite Edited October 17, 2005 by RyanVM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totoymola Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Anyway, there's always XPLite Hahaha!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oleg_II Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 ElotemuygrandeYou may have a look at this site and search for IE-removal INFs (there were some for removing IE and some more components AFTER install). For W2k, but you can modify it for your OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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