BelArc Advisor shows Hotfixes -- Add/Remove Programs does not.

[Jack Gillis]

After I installed SP2 several weeks ago. Add/Remove Programs showed SP2
installed and no Hotfixes, there were a bunch of them prior to SP2. I
just ran BelArc Advisor and it showed, in addition to SP2, all the
hotfixes I had installed before SP2 going back as far as 2002.

Is this normal for BelArc Advisor? Are those hotfix entries just
vestiges somewhere out in the registry? And, more important, should I
be concerned?

Thank you very much.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Perfectly normal. Belarc is reading registry entries that indicate installed
hotfixes. When you installed SP2, it removed the "remove" entries that you
saw in Add & Remove.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

my BelArc did the same just show sp-2 no others.. so far
system stable, feel with update it change the files
version and that why BeL doesn't show it..

just my 2 cents worth

 

[Jack Gillis]

Thank you, Rick.

Hi,

Perfectly normal. Belarc is reading registry entries that indicate
installed hotfixes. When you installed SP2, it removed the "remove"
entries that you saw in Add & Remove.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Alex Nichol]

Thank you, Rick.

Also note that after SP2, Add/Remove only shows hotfixes if you check
its 'Show Updates' box

 

[Jack Gillis]

Thank you, Alex.

I wondered why Office 2003 SP1 didn't show up. Now it does.