Windows XP Hotfix Thingies

cheekymole

I have loads of these in my Add/Remove Programs. I am trying to tidy up my computer - is it safe to delete them?

intel

Leave Em Alone Thats The Updates

Take the tick out of "show updates"

albertross_2

No.........

But, you can remove the backups that hotfix installs create with this:

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_remove_hotfix_backup.zip


This is quite a thorough cleaner which can be used in conjunction with Intel's favourite (ccleaner)..

http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/clndisk.html


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trigger_mike

glad you asked that, i was thinking the same

cheekymole

intel wrote:

Leave Em Alone Thats The Updates

Take the tick out of "show updates"

Ok, where's the tick then?

cheekymole

trigger_mike wrote:

glad you asked that, i was thinking the same

Glad I'm not the only one who doesn't have a clue

intel

In add/remove programs

trigger_mike

ok albertross i;ve used http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp...tfix_backup.zip and that has removed them but i hope they will still work!

cheekymole

No wonder I can't find it - it's not there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

intel

cheekymole wrote:

No wonder I can't find it - it's not there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dont worry then just dont touch em... :beer:

albertross_2

You should be ok (I Hope) , checkout clndisk as well, it securely overwrites your download history etc..

From Doug's site...

"When you install updates from Windows Update, backup folders are created for the files that were replaced during the update. These are created so that you can easily uninstall a particular Hotfix, if it causes problems with your system. If your system is running stable and you don't need to uninstall the hotfixes, then you can safely remove the backup files to free up disk space.

This utility will locate the Hotfixes that have created backup files on your system, and will remove those backups. It will also removes the associated Registry entries for these items in Add/Remove Programs.

NOTE: This utility does NOT remove application specific hotfix backups (Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Media player and etc.). It will only remove hotfix backups that are specific to the Windows XP operating system."