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Preventing automatic Exchange installation

If your organization doesn't use Exchange, the fact that it installs along with the rest of Windows NT 4 is just plain annoying. Here's how to prevent it:

1. Copy the i386 folder from the NT installation CD to an NT system's hard drive.
2. Navigate to the folder from a command line.
3. Enter "expand Syssetup.in_ Syssetup.inf" and rename Syssetup.in_ to Syssetup.old.
4. Edit Syssetup.inf to replace MSMAIL.INF with ;MSMAIL.INF in the [BaseWinOptionsInfs] section.
   

Now, if you install NT from the new folder, the Exchange client will not be installed.