Unwanted folders....

[Guest]

Hi all..
XP Pro..Standalone...No Web Sight...No Sharing

I have the following folders/programs that I do not use, and do not need. (I think). Anyway...I am trying to
eliminate any programs etc...that have access to the internet so as to avoid any "accidental unauthorized use of my PC.

I have IPsec in place, snap -ins and all, several services already disabled, the standard security in place ++++++ some..
The following I want to be rid of..


Microsoft shared
MSTDC
Wbem
Soapbox
Any server stuff..I have seen Sql ( but not sure if it is installed). how do i find out if I have some sort of server service going...
print server, exchange server...?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

For control of services you may want to go download the XP Security Guide
from the MS website.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/winclnt/secwinxp
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=14840
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/topics/hardsys/TCG/TCGCH00.asp
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=15160

There is no way you would have Exchange server on XP.

SQL may be there, most likely as an MSDE storage engine for some
software that you have installed.
The list of services is the place to look - under Manage or by running
services.msc in Pro

MSDTC (is that what you meant for MSTDC ?) is something you should
not remove, but that you probably can set to manual instead of auto, or
prehap even disable. If all depends on what is installed and what you
do when on the system. This is the Distributed Transaction Coordinator
and is use to brokerage between disjoint participants in something that
should happen all or not at all.

Wbem is essential. Kill it to kill XP.

Soapbox must be some third-party application you have installed.

Not sure what you are indicating as "Microsoft shared"

If you want this machine to be isolated, you may uncheck the MS Networking
Client and the File and Print sharing within the properties of your network
interface. This will make your machine NetBIOS dumb and shut down much
of RPC. Do not uninstall, just unbind by unchecking.

Hi all..
XP Pro..Standalone...No Web Sight...No Sharing

I have the following folders/programs that I do not use, and do not need.

(I think). Anyway...I am trying to

eliminate any programs etc...that have access to the internet so as to

avoid any "accidental unauthorized use of my PC.

I have IPsec in place, snap -ins and all, several services already

disabled, the standard security in place ++++++ some..

The following I want to be rid of..


Microsoft shared
MSTDC
Wbem
Soapbox
Any server stuff..I have seen Sql ( but not sure if it is installed). how

do i find out if I have some sort of server service going...

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Jay;
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared
You don't want to rid of this. Among other things, this allows programs to share such
things as
msinfo32.exe (System Information).

C:\Program Files\Common Files\MSSoap
This one? Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)