Re: delete/uninstall older windows hotfix

From: Kent W. England [MVP] (kwe@mvps.org)
Date: 11/23/02 

From: "Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 14:19:56 -0800

Fixes are designed to stay in place. You can remove the uninstaller
folders from %windir%, if you like. Then if you click on the fix in
Add/Remove Programs, the program will offer to remove the entry from the
list for you. 

-- 
Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
(Please respond only in the newsgroup)
"Whizard of ODD" <whizard@email.com> wrote in message
news:1270f01c2930a$a9f24c60$8af82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA03...
> After I install a new critical update, can I delete the
> older ones?  I have about 10 or so, but I haven't touched
> them for fear that I will screw something up. (I'm pretty
> good at that :)  They come up in the add/remove programs
> as individual programs, but there is only one that has a
> size on it.  They all say that they were last used on 11-
> 03-2002.
> TIA
> Whizard of ODD

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