I want to strip down Outlook Express...

[Mark K Vallevand]

Outlook Express is required by IIS, but I'd like to remove as much of OE as
possible.

Is it better to leave OE alone while building the image and remove the OE
program files after up and running? I plan to leave all the files OE
installed in system directories.

Or

Is it better to modify OE in Target Designer to disable the OE program files
and Resources? Again, I'll leave all the files OE installs in system
directories.

Or

Don't even try. Maybe IIS depends on OE program files rather than files it
installs in system directories.

PS Microsoft: How hard would it be for you to do this? How about all the
other things a headless, userless, printer-less system drags in? I don't
have a printer port, yet I get local printing and print spooling. No user,
but I get OE. No video, kb, mouse or local devices, yet I get direct video,
direct sound, video capture, analog TV, video for windows and image capture.
Can't ignore the dependencies, because it usually breaks something we need.

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[JC]

Personally, I would leave the bits alone, and then remove shortcuts to
applications post FBA, then fbreseal. But that's just me

I am not Microsoft, but what you ask for would be incredibly difficult, as
XPE=XP pro. XP Pro was not designed to be a headless OS, therefore the
design of the OS would dictate that a general purpose PC would have all of
those components installed. So to remove those components, you would have to
re-architect the OS entirely.

If you are running headless, make sure you have the null VGA component and
the System message interception components installed, or you will
undoubtedly have problems.

JMHO.

 

[Mark K Vallevand]

Well, the point was to save the gobs of space that Outlook Express takes up.

So, I did it. I disabled all files and dll registrations for any Outlook
Express file that wasn't in any common directory. So far, so good. I'll
see what the testing of the entire system (OS + Applications + WebPages)
shows up.

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[Kesavan]

Hey,

I guess you need to doubly test and make sure that those disabled
files and dll registrations are not really required by our smarty IIS
.I tried doing that before and got into some issues, well again
that's me ..

Kesavan

 

[Mark K Vallevand]

Yes, I've tried it before, too. Always trouble. This time I hope it will
be better.

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