Remove Hotfixes?

From: MAP (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/30/04


Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 05:25:07 -0800


>-----Original Message-----
>Hi-
>I am rapidly running out of hard disk space on my PC and
>was wondering if I am able to remove the Windows
Hotfixes
>via add/remove programs- are these Hotfixes cumulative,
>or does the latest one downloaded replace the older one?
>Obviously I wouldn't delete them all, I just thought
that
>if some were now obsolete I'd remove them and get some
>more disk space. Thanks, Jamie
>.
>You can remove the backup copy of the hotfixes which
will clear up some space on your HD.Go here

www.dougknox.com
click on the XP utilities page,and look for a script for
removing the back up.Caution once you do this you will be
unable to uninstall these hotfixes so be sure that you
are having no problems due to these patches.



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