{"id":14,"date":"2008-06-21T23:09:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T05:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lju.ca\/?p=14"},"modified":"2011-03-17T11:33:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T17:33:24","slug":"remove-hidden-windows-components","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Remove Hidden Windows Components"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Windows components, such as the Accessibility Wizard, are hidden from the Windows Components Wizard. As such, these components cannot normally be removed. However, these components can be exposed by editing C:\\Windows\\Inf\\SYSOC.INF.\u00a0 Entries in the [Components] can be exposed by removing the HIDE parameter. (Don&#8217;t delete any commas, just the word &#8220;hide&#8221;.)\u00a0 Once the desired entries are exposed, they can be removed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The main hidden Windows components in Windows XP are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accessibility Wizard<\/strong><br \/>\nAccessOpt=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,optional.inf,HIDE,7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Automatic Windows Update<\/strong><br \/>\nAutoUpdate=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,au.inf,hide,7<\/p>\n<p><strong>COM+<\/strong><br \/>\ncom=comsetup.dll,OcEntry,comnt5.inf,hide,7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Communications components<\/strong> (including Chat, Hyperterminal, and Phone Dialer)<br \/>\nCommApps=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,communic.inf,HIDE,7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distributed Transaction Coordinator<\/strong><br \/>\ndtc=msdtcstp.dll,OcEntry,dtcnt5.inf,hide,7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windows Messenger<\/strong><br \/>\nmsmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7<\/p>\n<p><strong>WordPad<\/strong><br \/>\nMSWordPad=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wordpad.inf,HIDE,7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Multimedia components<\/strong> (including Media Player, Volume Control, and Sound Recorder)<br \/>\nMultiM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,multimed.inf,HIDE,7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pinball game<\/strong><br \/>\nPinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tablet PC<\/strong><br \/>\nTabletPC=tabletoc.dll,TabletSetupProc,Tabletpc.inf,HIDE,7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Terminal Server<\/strong><br \/>\nTerminalServer=TsOc.dll, HydraOc, TsOc.inf,hide,2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windows Management Instrumentation<\/strong><br \/>\nWBEM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wbemoc.inf,hide,7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Windows components, such as the Accessibility Wizard, are hidden from the Windows Components Wizard. As such, these components cannot normally be removed. However, these components can be exposed by editing C:\\Windows\\Inf\\SYSOC.INF.\u00a0 Entries in the [Components] can be exposed by removing the HIDE parameter. (Don&#8217;t delete any commas, just the word &#8220;hide&#8221;.)\u00a0 Once the desired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}