Remove MSN from XP SP2 Install

[Henners]

Hi There

I have been successfull in extracting/changing/resigning the firewall inf
file in my XP SP2 Standalone distro folder, but I notice that when SP2 is
installed, invariably MSN Messenger also tags along.

How can I change the distro folder (extracted service pack) to not install
Messenger?

Thanks,

-Henners

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have been successfull in extracting/changing/resigning the firewall
inf file in my XP SP2 Standalone distro folder, but I notice that
when SP2 is installed, invariably MSN Messenger also tags along.

How can I change the distro folder (extracted service pack) to not
install Messenger?

In your unattend.txt/winnt.sif file, make sure you have the following:

[Components]
msmsgs=off

Or do you mean something else?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have been successfull in extracting/changing/resigning the firewall
inf file in my XP SP2 Standalone distro folder, but I notice that
when SP2 is installed, invariably MSN Messenger also tags along.

How can I change the distro folder (extracted service pack) to not
install Messenger?

Two sites to check:

http://unattended.msfn.org/
and
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/

(CD and Network installs.)

 

[Henners]

Thanks for that...

I understand how to do it if I am doing a fresh install (slipstream),
however, we are deploying SP2 on top of exsisting XP SP1 machines. Those
machines had Messenger removed from them on the image we built. XP2 installs
MSN, but I would rather it didnt.

I am not aware of a way I can use a unattend.txt file for a SP2 deployment.

Thanks,
Henry

I have been successfull in extracting/changing/resigning the firewall
inf file in my XP SP2 Standalone distro folder, but I notice that
when SP2 is installed, invariably MSN Messenger also tags along.

How can I change the distro folder (extracted service pack) to not
install Messenger?

In your unattend.txt/winnt.sif file, make sure you have the following:

[Components]
msmsgs=off

Or do you mean something else?

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[Henners]

Can I edit the update.inf file somehow? Id rather not deploy SP2 and have
Windows Messenger go to everyones machines. If one somehow is out of policy
for testing or something, my GPO with "prevent it from running" becomes
ineffective.

-Henry

-Henry