Windows Programs

[Henry]

Can anyone help me with whether it's ok to remove the
Windows Hotfix under my Control Panel?? I have soo many
of them, and I'm not sure what to do with them. Please
help.

 

[RJK]

Leave them alone, for goodness sake, they're not hurting you !!!

regards, Richard

 

[Dave]

-----Original Message-----
Can anyone help me with whether it's ok to remove the
Windows Hotfix under my Control Panel?? I have soo many
of them, and I'm not sure what to do with them. Please
help.
.
Does the hotfix appear under Control Panel or Add Remove

Programs?

 

[The Unknown P]

They are in your add\remove program list and like you I
find them annoying. I don't want to undo the patches I
just don't want to see them in the list. www.dougknox.com
has a marvelous little tool that will do the job for you.
It also removes the useless backups it creates. Have fun.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Can anyone help me with whether it's ok to remove the
Windows Hotfix under my Control Panel?? I have soo many
of them, and I'm not sure what to do with them. Please
help.

No. Do not remove them. These are all the security (and other)
updates to Windows you've installed. If you remove these, you
will put back the security exposure they removed.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Can anyone help me with whether it's ok to remove the
Windows Hotfix under my Control Panel?? I have soo many
of them, and I'm not sure what to do with them.

Those are there so you could *uninstall* the patches you have downloaded
from Windows Update. Each corresponds to a folder of files needed for
the purpose - Windows\$NTUninstallQnnnnnn$ for the Hotfix Qnnnnnn
described at http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;nnnnnn

If you decide you will not want to uninstall a fix (and if all is
running smoothly you probably won't) then delete the folder. If you
then try in Add/remove, to Remove that one, it will fail, and you will
be offered the option of removing the entry there