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[Guest]

Hi, I've been using my computer for a little over 2 years and have about 35 hotfix updates taking up a lot of RAM, will there be any harm in removing these? Or should I just leave them. Thank you in advance

Steve.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi Steve

May I suggest that you leave the Hotfixes where they are. You may leave
your system 'open to attack' if the Critical/Security Updates are removed.

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| Hi, I've been using my computer for a little over 2 years and have about
35 hotfix updates taking up a lot of RAM, will there be any harm in removing
these? Or should I just leave them. Thank you in advance!
|
| Steve.

 

[Phil]

Hot fixes do not take up RAM. That is memory. Files like hotfixes take up
hard drive space, not memory.
You should not unistall the hotfixes, but you can delete the hotfix unistall
files in explorer under the c:\windows folder. Once you manually delete
these you can then go into add/remove programs and remove the entries for
the hotfixes by clicking there remove button.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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Hi, I've been using my computer for a little over 2 years and have
about 35 hotfix updates taking up a lot of RAM, will there be any
harm in removing these? Or should I just leave them. Thank you in
advance!

Hotfixes are updates to Windows, mostly security-oriented. Do not
remove them. if you do, you will put back the security exposure
they were designed to close.

Also note that hotfixes may take up a small amount of disk space,
but they don't take up RAM (or if they do, the amount is tiny).

 

[Alex Nichol]

Hi, I've been using my computer for a little over 2 years and have about 35 hotfix updates taking up a lot of RAM, will there be any harm in removing these? Or should I just leave them.

Those are there so you could *uninstall* the patches. Each corresponds
to a folder of files needed for the purpose -
Windows\$NTUninstallQnnnnnn$ for the fix 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