Solved Remove All Security Features from Windows 7

[Bram van Kampen]

Hi.

How do I remove ALL Security Features, All warnings about missing Security Features, Firewalls, Anti Virus Software Etc from a Windows 7 System.

I am not interested at all in comments about the wisdom of doing so, Just in how to do it Selectively, to arrive at basic Windows 95 Security.

Regards,




Bram van Kampen

 

[zigzag3143]

Hi.

How do I remove ALL Security Features, All warnings about missing Security Features, Firewalls, Anti Virus Software Etc from a Windows 7 System.

I am not interested at all in comments about the wisdom of doing so, Just in how to do it Selectively, to arrive at basic Windows 95 Security.

Regards,




Bram van Kampen

Cant be done. Remove enough security and win 7 stops running

 

[logicearth]

to arrive at basic Windows 95 Security.

Install Windows 95.

 

[fseal]

While Windows 7 may bark about each of those after a new install, simply ignoring them will make them go away. And sure if you bring up the security control panel you'll see a lot of red, but it doesn't keep popping up reminders after the first time.

Then lastly you turn off UAC which has tutorials all over creation for.

And though you may not be interested.. I will say that that is completely unnessary and er... un-smart. I've had virii detected on manufacturers driver disks. Your not safe even if you are not connected to the net.

 

[Corrine]

Even with what fseal posted, you cannot get back to "basic Windows 95 security". Too many changes have been made under the hood. The OS code is not the same as Win95 and holes that have been discovered over the years have been patched.

 

[fseal]

Ah yeah, I didn't even touch on the file system and registry security scemes which are about 100 times as locked down as windows 95 Those you can't do much about wihtout disabling your entire system as Zigzag said...

 

[karlsnooks]

Hi.

How do I remove ALL Security Features, All warnings about missing Security Features, Firewalls, Anti Virus Software Etc from a Windows 7 System.

I am not interested at all in comments about the wisdom of doing so, Just in how to do it Selectively, to arrive at basic Windows 95 Security.

Regards,




Bram van Kampen

Not exactly the smartest move one can make.

If you want to try to get around the security features built-in to Win 7, then you are completely in the wrong place.

 

[seavixen32]

to arrive at basic Windows 95 Security.

Install Windows 95.

That made me smile.

 

[Bram van Kampen]

Hi,

Well, Thanks for the time everyone gave to respond. Maybe I should explain a bit further. I manufacture sets of terminals for the Laundry and Drycleaning industry. These units arrive to the customer as a pre-packaged unit, All nescessary drivers etc. are Pre-Installed. These units will never be asked to run any other Software than what we supply. Installing any un-approved software invalidates the Licence and theSupport Contract. USB Ports and CD-Drives are locked away. A Key is needed for Physical Access.
The Software we developed worked well under WIN95 and 98, but a number of clients, about 1% suffered an incident of Data Loss under Win95/98, over a year period. Over the 10 years till now of migrating to Windows XP we have had NO data Loss At All, despite an expanding Client Base. Migrating to Windows XP was no problem. Whatever security features there where, it was easy to turn them off.
They where never needed by us.

This is our 'Ideal' environment.

We do NOT want to go back to Win95/98.
I Also think it could tecnically be Illegal to install Windows98 on a machine shipped with Windows 7.

Now, Microsoft has stopped issuing licences for Windows XP, and we are all forced to migrate to Windows 7. This is frankly a HUGE overkill for what we do with a machine. Each machine spends 95% of the day displaying a single Dialog Box with a Button 'Next Customer', and checking every three minutes if anything in the database changed.

So, all the extended functionality that Windows 7 offers over Windows 95 (as distinct from it's stability) is much appreciated on the computer I am writing this message from, but totally Useless on our Product.

To set the Scene.:
Our system does not use the Registry At All, Instead it uses 'Ini' Files, stored in the same directory as the Executable These Files need on occasion to be Edited, either in Notepad, or by Software.

The System is implemented on a 'File Share' basis, on a 'Peer to Peer' Network.

Our System does not use the Windows Security System at all. Every terminal runs in Administrator Mode. The reason for this is Well Considered. All Users, in order to perform their tasks, MUST have Read Write Access to All Database Files. The issue is NOT Who has access to Which File, but rather, Who can perform What transaction, affecting multiple enties in multiple files, which our software resolves successfully.

Our Longer term goals try to avoid the change of the common User Interface aspects in any way or manner. What we change is things like Reporting Facilities, Data Stored in the Database, i.e. the To us Usefull Things.

Our clients may or may not be reasonable Computer literate. We try to train them to be at least Reasonable Computer Literate.

We Also train our Clients Staff. They are invariably Computer Illiterate. We train them to 'Do the Job'.

Then a Terminal breaks down somewhere. Sorry, MS Changed Their Software, we have to Re-Train your Staff, Things will work different on the New Terminal.

Understand my question now?




Bram

 

[carwiz]

Don't know where you are (country dependent) but have you looked into Windows 7 Starter or Home Basic? As a system integrator you can select the level of security and function during the install and these two are the most basic of Windows 7.

I'm not sure it would work but simply disabling the SAM process would disable most security features. I don't have a system to test it but it's the hub for security. I know it can be done in XP but I don't recall the processes at the moment.

 

[Corrine]

Perhaps you should also consider testing a Linux Distro.

 

[carwiz]

Perhaps you should also consider testing a Linux Distro.

Excellent Point!

 

[karlsnooks]

Although not really designed for such an environment, have you looked into using the Win 7 thin client? You can install it on a non-networked computer, however, there are other "features" which may negate its use.

Another alternative which is certainly worth investigating is using a Linux variant. Even 5 years ago, Linux versions were rather primitive, however, nowadays there are some very good linuix versions. In fact, as much a fan as I am of Win 7, I would be installing a linux in your situation.

 

[karlsnooks]

Corrine,
Yours came in while I was sending mine.
Let us just say that great minds think alike.

 

[Corrine]

They sure do!

One of the forums I admin has an excellent Linux Forum (Scot's Newsletter Forums -> Bruno's All Things Linux). All new members are carefully vetted due to Scot's position as Editor in Chief at Computerworld. However, if you should need help and decide to register there, a search for "Bram van Kampen" would bring up this thread and you'd be ushered right in.

 

[carwiz]

"... your computer is very dangerous and not safe."

Just don't give it any weapons or sharp objects.

It's possible but the virus would have to be introduced by the administrator. It sounds to me the computers are on a closed network without access to the web--Basically a terminal. Besides that, a user would have no way to "install" a virus.

 

[Layback Bear]

The program that you have that works great on XP, 98, 98 can't that same program be changed to work with Windows 7. The odds of changing Windows 7 to work with a very old program are slim to none. Yes I understand their would be a cost to have a new program created. To the best of my knowledge Microsoft does not create new operating system to work with 30 year old programs. I'm sure their are people that could write you a program that would work with the new Windows 7.

 

[fseal]

Actually, I'm not sure what the problem is?

you should be able to make a couple of tweaks and be on with it!

Maybe if you were more specific about what problems you are actually having? Exactly what isn't working right?

I see one, the use of INI files in the program folder. You have two options. Install the program OUTSIDE the /programs(x86) folder OR after installing, change the permissions on the program folder appropriately.

You can turn off the firewall or punch a hole in it for your software.

If you are doing dozens or hundreds of these things you can set up one machine exactly the way you want it, then sysprep it and basically clone it to multiple hard drives so you don;t have to set everything up on each machine.

So... IS there something specific? We can help on a question by question basis, but something as overly broad as "Turn all security off" is not going to get you the answers you need since that is simply not possible.

 

[Layback Bear]

I did not mention anything about Registry Booster. I do not recommend any 3rd party program that does anything to the registry. I'm as sure as I can be that a program can be wrote to satisfy the OP's needs using Windows 7 but then again I'm not a program creator. Their are probably a few members on this forum with the proper information and desire could do it.

 

[FranzB]

Perhaps you should also consider testing a Linux Distro.

An excellent advice, Corrine. As you can see i am using Linux Mint 10 and i am usually surfing with it. Even if you order a CD to install it the costs are practically negligible.