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In control panel, under add or remove. Can you remove all you updates that alreally have been updated? I have about 20 in there? -- thank you,klr |
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No. If your uninstall the updates, you remove them and leave your computer at risk. -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Enjoy all the benefits of genuine Microsoft software: http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/default.mspx -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------Â--------------------------------- "KLR" wrote: | In control panel, under add or remove. Can you remove all you updates that | alreally have been updated? I have about 20 in there? | -- | thank you,klr |
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"KLR" <KLR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7EDDC679-7777-4E33-A3B9-23CA8134CFC8@microsoft.com... > In control panel, under add or remove. Can you remove all you updates that > alreally have been updated? I have about 20 in there? > -- > thank you,klr If you do that then you have removed the update. That's probably not what you want to do. You can, however, remove the uninstall folders that are created for each update, normally in C:\windows. They are in blue with a format of $NtUninstallKBxxxxxx$ where the KBxxxxxx represent the knowledge base article number for that update. If the system has been running well since the update, and you don't think you will need to remove it, then delete these files. It won't remove the update, but it will remove the ability to uninstall that update. After these uninstall files are removed you can then remove the entry to these updates in Add/Remove programs. Just click on that update entry and click Remove. It will pop up a message that it can't remove it and ask if you want to remove the entry. Click yes. Doug Knox has a utility to automate the removal of these uninstall files and their entries in Add/Remove. Get it from here: http://www.dougknox.com/ Win XP Utilities Remove Hotfix Backup Files v2.1.6 -- Rock [MVP Windows Shell/User] |
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KLR wrote: > In control panel, under add or remove. Can you remove all you updates > that alreally have been updated? I have about 20 in there? These are the critical updates (mostly security-oriented) that you've been downloading all along. Do not remove these, or you will put back the security exposures they were designed to fix. You can however delete their backup files. See http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_hotfix_backup.htm -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup |
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