"Uninstall" files for updates-safe to delete?

[1940LaSalle]

I try to be fairly rigorous about downloading and
installing critical--and many recommended--Windows XP
updates. As such, I have a fair number of "Uninstall"
files accumulated. Is it safe/OK to delete these?

 

[PA Bear]

No. Leave them be.
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HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

Protect Your PC
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[Alex Nichol]

I try to be fairly rigorous about downloading and
installing critical--and many recommended--Windows XP
updates. As such, I have a fair number of "Uninstall"
files accumulated. Is it safe/OK to delete these?

It is, provided you are sure you will not want to uninstall the fixes
concerned. The thing to delete is the windows\$NTUninstallQnnnnnn$
related to Hotfix Qnnnnnn and described at
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;nnnnnn

Once deleted an attempt to uninstall in Add/remove programs will fail,
and you will be offered the chance to remove the entry there