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Posted by Gene E. Bloch on August 2, 2008, 6:04 pm
Please log in for more thread options Doug, I read the OP as seeing entries in the Add/Remove programs
control panel, and I read your reply as referring to the folders under
the Windows folder.
If I'm right there's a problem with your reply; if I'm wrong there's a
problem with me :-)
But for safety's sake I had to ask...
On 8/02/2008, Doug Knox - [MS-MVP] posted this:
> Those are backups of the files that were replaced by the update. If your
> sure you don't need to remove any of the updates, they're safe to delete. See
> www.dougknox.com, Win XP Utilities, Remove Hotfix Backups for more
> information and a tool to automatically remove them.
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>> In the Add or Remove Programs folder there are older Microsoft updates for
>> Windows XP and Java updates. Is it necessary to have/keep these updates
>> here
>> or can they be removed and not effect anything.
>>
>> Anthony
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