# HOWTO Add IPC$ Share to WinXP System?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 28, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howto-add-ipc-share-to-winxp-system/483398 "2009-01-28T17:02:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howto-add-ipc-share-to-winxp-system/483398/1 "2009-01-28T17:02:48Z")

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I have a system at work upon which the end user, who is no longer present, decided to delete the IPC$ share on the system for security reasons.  
I’ve got local access to the system, and so that some of my administrative scripts (psexec in particular) will work again I’d like to install the IPC$ share once again.  
I can’t find directions on this in either the Microsoft KB or by Googling.  
Any hints?

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**Author:** ![realmojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@realmojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/realmojo)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howto-add-ipc-share-to-winxp-system/483398/2 "2009-01-28T17:34:20Z")

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