After updating Win XP, should I delete the files from Add/Remove!

[saad]

I just have updated Window XP Home Edition using
automatic update. After the update was done, I have so
many "Windows XP Hotfixes" with different numbers in
Add/Remove Programes. Is it safe to remove these "Windows
XP Hotfixes" from the Add/Remove Programes since windows
was updated?

 

[rifleman]

No. If you remove the entries in Add and Remove Programs you will remove the
updates from your OS.

 

[Mike Brearley]

You can remove the entries by going into the registry, but if you remove
them via the add/remove button, it will uninstall the update.

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Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley

 

[Alex Nichol]

I just have updated Window XP Home Edition using
automatic update. After the update was done, I have so
many "Windows XP Hotfixes" with different numbers in
Add/Remove Programes. Is it safe to remove these "Windows
XP Hotfixes" from the Add/Remove Programes since windows
was updated?

Those are there to remove the fixes if they do not work. - see the
corresponding description at
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;322011
for Hotfix Q322011

Each has a hidden folder in C:\Windows - eg $NTUninstallQ322011$
If you do not want to be able to uninstall a fix, delete that folder.
Then if you go to the entry in Add/remove and try Remove, it will fail
and give you the choice of removing the entry