Re: Can the original W2k Professional CD be modified?

There is no option to select which components are not to
be installed during installation. You'll have to uninstall them
in the Add/Remove Windows Components applet in your Control
Panel after your install the operating system.

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"Jimmy DaTulip" wrote:

| I've been plagued with an interestingly annoying problem for quite a while
| now. I do not get a chance to select the components to be installed when I
| install using my Windows 2000 Professional CD.
| I'm sure when I first installed years ago I selected what I wanted but why
| not now? I've reformatted, repartitioned, written zeros to boot sectors,
| written assembly code to zero out the hard disks (5 of them now), bought all
| new hardware (motherboard, case, powersupply, video card etc...) and still
| the installation installs ALL options and enables ALL servers and protocols.
| What originally prompted the re-install was that I got hacked pretty badly.
| I tried to get rid of it all and save some of my data but finally gave up and
| started re-partitioning. Can ya believe that didn't help? I even directly
| edited the hard disks and still something unholy lives. To me it looks like
| it made itself resident when I put in the .NET upgrade and SP4.
| Any wise ideas before I go back to good ole pen and paper to do my
| computing? Thats gonna suck for games.
|
| Jimmy Da Tulip
| --
| If I had a sig, you'd be reading it by now... and now.
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