diff --git a/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php b/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php
index 97cf9d3a23..ae9e04cb89 100644
--- a/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php
+++ b/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/admin.php');
 require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/schema.php');
 
 if ( !function_exists('wp_install') ) :
-function wp_install($blog_title, $user_name, $user_email, $public, $deprecated='') {
+function wp_install($blog_title, $user_name, $user_email, $public, $remote) {
 	global $wp_rewrite;
 
 	wp_check_mysql_version();
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ function wp_install($blog_title, $user_name, $user_email, $public, $deprecated='
 	update_option('blogname', $blog_title);
 	update_option('admin_email', $user_email);
 	update_option('blog_public', $public);
+	update_option('enable_app',$remote);
+	update_option('enable_xmlrpc',$remote);
+
 	$schema = ( isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTPS']) == 'on' ) ? 'https://' : 'http://';
 
 	if ( defined('WP_SITEURL') && '' != WP_SITEURL )
diff --git a/wp-admin/install.php b/wp-admin/install.php
index ff232126e4..63d0b871e8 100644
--- a/wp-admin/install.php
+++ b/wp-admin/install.php
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ switch($step) {
 		<tr>
 			<td colspan="2"><label><input type="checkbox" name="blog_public" value="1" checked="checked" /> <?php _e('Allow my blog to appear in search engines like Google and Technorati.'); ?></label></td>
 		</tr>
+		<tr>
+			<td colspan="2"><label><input type="checkbox" name="enable_remotepublishing" value="0" /> <?php _e('Enable remote publishing using the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog, Blogger and Atom publishing protocols for my blog.'); ?></label></td>
+		</tr>
+	</table>
 	</table>
 	<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="<?php _e('Install WordPress'); ?>" class="button" />
 </form>
@@ -68,6 +72,7 @@ switch($step) {
 		$weblog_title = stripslashes($_POST['weblog_title']);
 		$admin_email = stripslashes($_POST['admin_email']);
 		$public = (int) $_POST['blog_public'];
+		$remote = (int) $_POST['enable_remotepublishing'];
 		// check e-mail address
 		if (empty($admin_email)) {
 			// TODO: poka-yoke
@@ -78,7 +83,7 @@ switch($step) {
 		}
 
 		$wpdb->show_errors();
-		$result = wp_install($weblog_title, 'admin', $admin_email, $public);
+		$result = wp_install($weblog_title, 'admin', $admin_email, $public, $remote);
 		extract($result, EXTR_SKIP);
 ?>