Comments & Questions on XP2

[David H. Lipman]

Now that I have started to test WinXP XP2 on our corp. platforms, There are a couple of
questions and comments I have ...

Since XP Professional is used in Corp. environments, why does SP2 insist on creating a GAMES
group of icons ? Games are NOT allowed on our corp platforms (with the exception of
notebooks for bored employees at hotels, but only stock OS games are allowed)

Our corp. MIS/IS structure has barred FireWalls on corp PCs and thus the FireWall on WinXP
*must* be disabled. How can I disable the FireWall w/o going to the Control Panel applet
but by programming it in a Kixtart script ?

How can I disable the Pop-Up stopper in IE by programming it in a Kixtart script ?

Dave
BTW: I presently run a Kixtart Script, from the LAN, to do the following...
Stop the McAfee Enterprise v7.1 service
Copy the SP2 EXE to the desktop
SlipStream SP2 into c:\i386
Install SP2
Delete the GAMES group of icons from AllUsers
Delete leftover root file
Delete leftover root directories
reboot the platform

I am currently modifying said script to do likewise from a CDROM.

 

[Mike Kolitz]

Comments inline.

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Mike Kolitz MCSE 2000
MS-MVP - Windows Setup / Deployment

Now that I have started to test WinXP XP2 on our corp. platforms, There
are a couple of
questions and comments I have ...

Since XP Professional is used in Corp. environments, why does SP2 insist
on creating a GAMES
group of icons ? Games are NOT allowed on our corp platforms (with the
exception of
notebooks for bored employees at hotels, but only stock OS games are
allowed)

It's just a standard configuration. It can be modified though script after
the OS is installed, or configured during an unattended installation.

http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/reference.htm#components

If you want to do it after XP has been installed, create a text/inf file
with [Components] section in it, and with the sub-items configured how you

Our corp. MIS/IS structure has barred FireWalls on corp PCs and thus the
FireWall on WinXP
*must* be disabled. How can I disable the FireWall w/o going to the
Control Panel applet
but by programming it in a Kixtart script ?

See the WindowsFirewall section on the page I linked to above. You can also
manipulate the firewall settings using NETSH FIREWALL, or using scripting
objects.

Check out the different articles at this page:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/winxpsp2.mspx