How do I disable the Installation of Exchange during installation?
John Savill
January 8, 2000
1 Min Read
A. If you want to stop the installation of the Exchange client duringinstallation of NT then perform the following:
Copy the I386 directory from the Windows NT CD-ROM to a directory
In the I386 folder expand the file syssetup.in_
C:> expand Syssetup.in_ Syssetup.infRename Syssetup.in_ to Syssetup.old as otherwise the installation will usethe compressed version
Edit the file Syssetup.inf and comment out the MSMAIL.INF entry in the[BaseWinOptionsInfs]
Save the file and install as normal
Below is an example of the edited file
[BaseWinOptionsInfs]
accessor.inf
communic.inf
games.inf
imagevue.inf
mmopt.inf
;msmail.inf
multimed.inf
optional.inf
pinball.inf
wordpad.inf
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