Break through the limitations of XP Home Edition to install IIS

Common Windows XP comes in two versions, Professional and Home. These two versions are largely the same, but in terms of details, the Professional version has more features than the Home version. For example, the Professional version of XP supports dual CPU, multi-language, domain, EFS file encryption, and IIS (Internet Information Services). Many people didn't know enough when they bought a computer. They bought a computer with a pre-installed version of XP. When they needed to use it or wanted to learn IIS, they found that the Home version could not install IIS or PWS at all. If you follow the usual method, you can only upgrade to Windows XP Professional or use Windows 2000, but take a closer look at the following, you can also install IIS on Windows XP Home.

The first thing to note is that this approach can be risky, so it's best to know what happens to your behavior before you actually do it. And IIS installed through such processing may have some unknown defects in its operation. Also, like the Professional version of XP, IIS running on the Home version has 10 concurrent connections. At the same time, only 10 people can use the IIS service you provide. If you still want to continue, then look down.

Preparation: A Windows 2000 Professional CD (assuming the CD-ROM is an F-drive).

First enter "c:\\windows\\inf\\sysoc.inf" in the run, the system will automatically open the sysoc.inf file using Notepad. Find the "[Components]" section in sysoc.inf and continue to find a line similar to "iis=iis.dll,OcEntry,iis.inf,hide,7", replace this line with "iis =iis2.dll,OcEntry,iis2.inf,,7". Then save and close.

Insert the Windows 2000 Professional CD into the CD-ROM drive and press the Shift key to disable the CD-ROM drive. Enter "CMD" on the run and press Enter to open the command line mode. Enter the following two commands at the command line and press Enter at the end of each line:

Expand d:\\i386\\iis .dl_ c:\\windows\\system32\\setup\\iis2.dll
Expand d:\\i386\\iis.in_ c:\\windows\\inf\\iis2.inf

At this point, open you Control panel, and click the "Add Remove Programs" icon, then click "Add Remove Windows Components" and you should see the interface of Figure 1. Look closely, the operating system shown in the Start menu is Windows XP Home, but after modification, there is already an option to add IIS.

Figure 1

Then you can add IIS according to the method in Windows XP Professional or Windows 2000. In this example, we only installed the WWW service. . The system will start copying files, which will take some time. And for this reason, please keep the Windows 2000 Professional CD in the CD-ROM drive.

After the installation is complete, you can open the Control Panel - Performance and Options - Administrative Tools, "Internet Information Services Management" has appeared there (Figure 2). If you want to verify that IIS is working properly and you have IE open, type "http://localhost" in the address bar and press Enter. If you can see the interface in Figure 3, then your IIS will be running normally.

Figure 2

Figure 3

Last but not least:

If you need to insert the Window Whistler CD or you need to provide the exch_adsiisex.dll file during the installation process, it is because you installed IIS by default. To solve this problem, just click "details" when you install IIS, and then cancel the selection of SMTP (ie, do not install SMTP server), then you will not need those two files when copying files.

If you find that the Internet Information Services (IIS) installation project has been displayed after you installed the location in Figure 1, but they cannot be selected at all, it is likely because you are using iis.dl_ And iis.in_ is taken from Windows XP Professional, as long as it is replaced by Windows 2000 Professional, you can continue to install normally.

After verification, several services such as WWW and FTP can be run normally on Windows XP Home.