Is there a [Component] code to remove...

[Marztabator]

Just wonderin'.

[Mike500]

No, that's not possible via [Components]. See the file "ref.chm" from the deployment tools package.

[Marztabator]

Ok, but just remember that they didn't list 'msmsgs' in that section, yet that didn't mean Windows Messenger was non-removable...

[Marztabator]

Hmmm, I discovered recently that the following command line only works if you have WMP9 installed:

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\wmp.inf,Uninstall

It seems to do nothing whatsoever with WMP8 installed.

[Marztabator]

Cripes, could this really be a 100% non-removable part of XP? Looks like M$ got us this time.

Wonder if 2000/XP-lite will be able to remove it?

[DaveXP]

if you know how you can remove everything but M$ hate people doing it so they dont tell you how to do it.

[Bachus]

Then please enlighten us in getting rid of WMP8...

[DaveXP]

well waht you could do is remove the setup files from the I386 dir but i would not recommended it because it would ask for them but if you could work out which file windows setup uses to list which files needed to be copyed and then change that file to remove windows media player from the list and then remove windows media player setup files form the I386 directory on the Cd that would work.

[Aaron]

Its very difficult to remove hard-codened applications such as WMP8 and IE6 from WindowsXP. LitePC is the only company who claims they can do it. They were a sucess with Windows98, but Windows2000 and XP has proven to be very difficult to do, but they're getting there!