Archiving XP Upgrades

[Jeff]

I have archived my XP Security upgrades to a CD to get them off my HD. All
the $NtUninstallKB..... folders.

What do I do with the files entitled "KB.......log" or "Q323....log"? I've
left them on the HD. Should I leave them there or also archive them off the
HD?

Thanks.

 

[Jerry]

The *.LOG files have the info necessary to uninstall the referenced update,
so if you save the folders with the KB* name then you also need the same
named LOG fies if there comes a time when you will ever uninstall them.

 

[Mikhail Zhilin]

I have archived my XP Security upgrades to a CD to get them off my HD. All
the $NtUninstallKB..... folders.

Jeff,

You have archived not the upgrades -- but quite the contrary: the old
versions of files, which had been replaced by the updates and were left
in these folders in case you'll need to uninstall any of these updates.

What do I do with the files entitled "KB.......log" or "Q323....log"? I've
left them on the HD. Should I leave them there or also archive them off the
HD?

You can delete them -- as well as $NtUninstallKB..... folders.
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htm

But DON'T delete $hf_mig$ folder; see:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824994

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[Jeff]

Thank you.

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[Mikhail Zhilin]

BTW, you can download and save for backup purposes all the current
updates: go to MS Windows Update site -- Administrator options (in the
left frame) -- Windows Update Catalog (link in the right frame of
Administrator options page).

Updates, which are installing by autoupdate, in general are useless for
backup purposes (even if you intercept them -- what is not a trivial
job) because of two or three reasons -- what does NOT mean at all, that
any of autoupdate is a reductive variant of the update you download
manually.

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