Can the original W2k Professional CD be modified?

[Guest]

I've been plagued with an interestingly annoying problem for quite a while
now. I do not get a chance to select the components to be installed when I
install using my Windows 2000 Professional CD.
I'm sure when I first installed years ago I selected what I wanted but why
not now? I've reformatted, repartitioned, written zeros to boot sectors,
written assembly code to zero out the hard disks (5 of them now), bought all
new hardware (motherboard, case, powersupply, video card etc...) and still
the installation installs ALL options and enables ALL servers and protocols.
What originally prompted the re-install was that I got hacked pretty badly.
I tried to get rid of it all and save some of my data but finally gave up and
started re-partitioning. Can ya believe that didn't help? I even directly
edited the hard disks and still something unholy lives. To me it looks like
it made itself resident when I put in the .NET upgrade and SP4.
Any wise ideas before I go back to good ole pen and paper to do my
computing? Thats gonna suck for games.

Jimmy Da Tulip

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

There is no option to select which components are not to
be installed during installation. You'll have to uninstall them
in the Add/Remove Windows Components applet in your Control
Panel after your install the operating system.

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Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
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| I've been plagued with an interestingly annoying problem for quite a while
| now. I do not get a chance to select the components to be installed when I
| install using my Windows 2000 Professional CD.
| I'm sure when I first installed years ago I selected what I wanted but why
| not now? I've reformatted, repartitioned, written zeros to boot sectors,
| written assembly code to zero out the hard disks (5 of them now), bought all
| new hardware (motherboard, case, powersupply, video card etc...) and still
| the installation installs ALL options and enables ALL servers and protocols.
| What originally prompted the re-install was that I got hacked pretty badly.
| I tried to get rid of it all and save some of my data but finally gave up and
| started re-partitioning. Can ya believe that didn't help? I even directly
| edited the hard disks and still something unholy lives. To me it looks like
| it made itself resident when I put in the .NET upgrade and SP4.
| Any wise ideas before I go back to good ole pen and paper to do my
| computing? Thats gonna suck for games.
|
| Jimmy Da Tulip
| --
| If I had a sig, you'd be reading it by now... and now.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for a definitive response. Perhaps my recollection of my original
install of win2k is cloudy at best since it was so long ago. Now, the
location you mentioned for add/remove windows components shows that the
components are indeed not installed, so of course they can't be removed. But
they're running as processes and accepting connections right after a new
install. Like IIS, Telnet Server, Netmeeting, Remote Registry, etc...
Anything that can run as a server is running and ready to go. I have been
stopping and disabling what I can within "services" and yet the running
modules lists them as still running and performing fine. I also got brutal
with it and outside windows 2k I ran a batch file with deleted the module
files, then the system refuses to boot. I'm no stranger to re-installing now
and not beyond trying any "bonehead consumer maneuver" that I can to try and
maintain some sort of security on a simple home system I only want to game
with on the internet.

I've read hundreds of microsoft articles on "how to" for many various things
now, and much has really helped me gain a greater understanding, but most
articles explain 1000 ways to make something work for every 1 that explain
how to stop something from working. It seems the hackers and remote control
freaks have the upper hand on the end users or victims when it comes to
information provided by Microsoft. Getting updates and security patches
cannot be successful if you get compromised while you are getting them.

Sorry to ramble, I'm just trying to get things working again. My Linux
installs do the same thing on these machines that got hacked. I just don't
know how it can transfer to a brand new machine with all brand new parts when
the only old thing I used was my Windows 2000 CD.

 

[WM]

Windows NT 4 was the last version of Windows to ask which components to
install during setup in an attended setup. To specify which you don't want
during Windows 2000, you can either:
-Specify an unattend file during setup
-Use Add/Remove Windows Components to, well, remove Windows Components
-Use an unattend file and sysocmgr to remove components the same way as
directly above, only automatically. If this sounds menacing, see the option
above. If not, google it.