How to run GD+ Detection Tool ?

Posted on this separately but thought a new post may be appropriate for these
questions... Thanks for any additional help on this as I'm trying to get it
right :)

Status:
XP Pro Svc Pk 2 here on few week old Toshiba Laptop w/Auto Updates ON
- Recently a balloon popped-up alerting me of new update so I clicked it
- and apparently installed the GDI+ Detection Tool as...
- "Review your update history" at...
http://www.update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en-us
tells me I have GDI+ Detection installed.

Questions:
1 - Now how do I run the tool? Where is it on my PC?

(The "Notes" section at... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=873374
are very confusing... in the 2nd paragraph it tells me... "If you download
the tool from the Windows Update Web site, you can run the tool only one
time."
Then it tells me... "To run the tool again, you must download the tool from
the Microsoft Download Center." Huh?!!)

2 - Must I re-download the Tool to run it?
3 - Later on the same page it tells me to go to the location where the GDI+
Detection Tool was saved to run it...
Anyone know where the Auto Update may have saved it?

(a search of C: for fileswith GDI in their name reveals many files but only
one App... GDI.exe... and I don't think that is it...)

4 - Finally... Since this looks for the Stack Overflow problem in "other
apps" must I run this after installing each piece of new software from now
on???

I guess I lost my opportunity to do this properly somewhere along the way
and thanks to anyone who pitches in to help.

.

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