How to remove components of windows 2000/XP that you normally cannot remove

Barnaby W. Füi

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Aug 14, 2001
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normally, there is alot of crap in win2k you can't remove, something i noticed when moving from win98. but i found a way.

open c:\winnt\inf\sysoc.inf

it will have syntax somewhat like this:

blah blah blah,fart,poop,739,hide,7

somethin like that, anyways, remove the word "hide". dont remove the commas or anything else. so our example would now look like this:

blah blah blah,fart,poop,739,,7

do this to whatever you want in there. games, 'accessories', etc.

now save the file and close.

go to add/remove programs (appwiz.cpl at run box)

click add/remove windows components

now you can safely uninstall things that didnt appear here before.

neat.

PS: in XP it is the same, also you can use this to remove the PESKY msn messager, SAFELY! no hack! (err...if you dont consider this a hack)
 

Barnaby W. Füi

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i found out about the disabling msn messanger thing, then i messed around w/ the file and got those other things too
 

MajinWade

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But wait, I thought fart,poop was an essential part of the window's. Remove them and you're sure to have stability problems. :p