How to completely remove WIA

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How do I remove WIA completely?

In run Windows XP Pro system (with all hotfixes except SP2) and I
have Windows Image Aquisition (WIA) installed.

WIA seems to be implicated in all sorts of things which are an
unwanted overhead on my small machine. I have disabled the WIA
service but there seem to be all sorts of other activities to do with
WIA such as:

(1) services such as the Still Image Service (StiSvc)
(2) I get entries Event logs saying I have errors because WIA can't
start,
(3) RegMon reports masses of unnecessary registry accesses to keys
related to WIA (device ref A1F4E726-8CF1-11D1-BF92-0060081ED811).
(4)

I always use TWAIN and I never use WIA.

How do I remove WIA completely?
 
How do I remove WIA completely?

In run Windows XP Pro system (with all hotfixes except SP2) and I
have Windows Image Aquisition (WIA) installed.

WIA seems to be implicated in all sorts of things which are an
unwanted overhead on my small machine. I have disabled the WIA
service but there seem to be all sorts of other activities to do with
WIA such as:

(1) services such as the Still Image Service (StiSvc)
(2) I get entries Event logs saying I have errors because WIA can't
start,
(3) RegMon reports masses of unnecessary registry accesses to keys
related to WIA (device ref A1F4E726-8CF1-11D1-BF92-0060081ED811).
(4)

I always use TWAIN and I never use WIA.

How do I remove WIA completely?
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That's intersting. My WIA is set to Manual and it never starts.
I would say you must have something installed that needs it.

Dave
 
da_test said:
That's intersting. My WIA is set to Manual and it never starts.
I would say you must have something installed that needs it.

Dave
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WIA is called for in some scanners, and most web cams and digital cameras,
so if you have any of those hooked up, and have it disabled, that's why you
are getting error messages. If I were you, I would install SP2 and then try
other repairs.
 
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