selectively installing Windows XP Service Pack 2

[Colleen]

I apologize in advance for addressing this to multiple newsgroups, but I
do not know which is the most applicable one.

I would like to know how to install selected components of Windows XP
Service Pack 2. In other words, I would like to NOT install the
firewall utility that is causing so many problems for people. I already
have excellent firewalls on all my computers, and I do not need
redundancy in this area. I am sure there is some way to do this, but
after searching the Microsoft website for quite awhile, I am unable to
find any way to select components of SP 2 to install.

Can someone advise me?

Thank you.
Colleen

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

I would like to know how to install selected components of Windows XP
Service Pack 2. In other words, I would like to NOT install the
firewall utility that is causing so many problems for people. I already
have excellent firewalls on all my computers, and I do not need
redundancy in this area. I am sure there is some way to do this, but
after searching the Microsoft website for quite awhile, I am unable to
find any way to select components of SP 2 to install.

Can someone advise me?

Hi,

Installing SP2 without the firewall component is not possible, but it
is easy to disable it.

To disable the firewall, you can just set two registry settings before
the SP2 installation. The FW disables itself when it finds those
registry settings (adding the registry values after SP2 is installed will
also disable the firewall at next startup).


The registry settings are:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile
\EnableFirewall=0 (DWORD data type)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\StandardProfile
\EnableFirewall=0 (DWORD data type)

The registry settings are documented here:

WF_XPSP2.doc "Deploying Windows Firewall Settings for Microsoft
Windows XP with Service Pack 2" is downloadable from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4454e0e1-61fa-447a-bdcd-499f73a637d1


The VBScript (.vbs) below sets the two registry values needed to
disable the WinXP SP2 firewall.

'--------------------8<----------------------
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

oShell.RegWrite "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall" _
& "\DomainProfile\EnableFirewall", 0, "REG_DWORD"

oShell.RegWrite "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall" _
& "\StandardProfile\EnableFirewall", 0, "REG_DWORD"

'--------------------8<----------------------

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I apologize in advance for addressing this to multiple newsgroups,
but I do not know which is the most applicable one.

I would like to know how to install selected components of Windows
XP Service Pack 2. In other words, I would like to NOT install the
firewall utility that is causing so many problems for people. I
already have excellent firewalls on all my computers, and I do not
need redundancy in this area. I am sure there is some way to do
this, but after searching the Microsoft website for quite awhile, I
am unable to find any way to select components of SP 2 to install.

Install SP2 and Disable the built in Firewall - although - I know of few
"problems" with it - especially if you know how to configure a true firewall
application already.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Colleen wrote:

I would like to know how to install selected components of Windows XP
Service Pack 2.

Sorry, you can't.

In other words, I would like to NOT install the
firewall utility that is causing so many problems for people.

Two points here:

1. I have never heard of the SP2 firewall causing any problems

2. Installing it doesn't mean you have to run it. It's no different from
something like MS Paint or Wordpad. Just because they are installed doesn't
mean you have to run them.

I
already have excellent firewalls on all my computers, and I do not
need redundancy in this area.

If you already have a better firewall (and almost any third-party firewall
is better than the Windows one), by all means use it in preference to the
Windows one.

I am sure there is some way to do
this, but after searching the Microsoft website for quite awhile, I
am unable to find any way to select components of SP 2 to install.

Sorry, but no, there is no way to do it

 

[Jim]

I apologize in advance for addressing this to multiple newsgroups, but I
do not know which is the most applicable one.

I would like to know how to install selected components of Windows XP
Service Pack 2. In other words, I would like to NOT install the
firewall utility that is causing so many problems for people. I already
have excellent firewalls on all my computers, and I do not need redundancy
in this area. I am sure there is some way to do this, but after searching
the Microsoft website for quite awhile, I am unable to find any way to
select components of SP 2 to install.

Can someone advise me?

Thank you.
Colleen

Why are you running more than one firewall? I use ZoneAlarm, and all I had
to do was disable the XP one.
Jim

 

[Guest]

I have sp2 running on a wide variety of machines, many with lots of non-MS
software, and have found no problems. Would strongly recommend it, the
problems are exaggerated and it's a real securrity improvement.

The other thing I would do on a company machine is to turn off that annoying
'security centre' nagger. Again this can be achieved with a .reg file.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

The other thing I would do on a company machine is to turn off that
annoying 'security centre' nagger. Again this can be achieved with
a .reg file.

Or - for those less "ITish"..
(*note* - this is completely unnecessary on a domain machine. Use domains
ompanies!)

A checkbox or three....

Control Panel --> Security Center --> Change the Way Security Center Alerts
Me (left side menu) --> 3 checkboxes.

 

[Anonymous Electronically unless you know me.]

I apologize in advance for addressing this to multiple newsgroups, but I
do not know which is the most applicable one.

I would like to know how to install selected components of Windows XP
Service Pack 2. In other words, I would like to NOT install the
firewall utility that is causing so many problems for people. I already
have excellent firewalls on all my computers, and I do not need redundancy
in this area. I am sure there is some way to do this, but after searching
the Microsoft website for quite awhile, I am unable to find any way to
select components of SP 2 to install.

Can someone advise me?

Thank you.
Colleen

There are some utilities that claim to do this but you have to find out:

xplite - google it