Need to Uninstall updates

Please help, cannot uninstall update done today. Computer is messing up. Have
SP1. updated KB 896688 plus about 15 other updates. Had no choice. Custom
update gave no option today to choose, just started update. Any way I can
manually remove update if I copy the info from the list on todays calendar in
System Restore. Updates show but will not remove. Help appreciated, I'm a
rather new user and easily confused.

I have WinXP SP2. When I installed all the updates today my IE was screwed
up. There were no drop down menu items on top toolbar showing but they would
drop down if I scrolled over them, my start menu lost all its small icons,
any folders I went to showed icons only and I could not change it back to
list like I normally have them, and a few other things were "changed" I don't
remember. So after reading the posts here, I UNINSTALLED all of the days
updates ( I had 8 of them) and then reinstalled one by one (this time with my
AV off) except I did not reinstall KB896688( only downloaded and saved it).

What I finally did was went to KB896688 on MS downloads site and then DL it
from there to SAVE and then decided to try it again installing from my own
computer and now my IE and computer all works fine. I also made sure I had
my AV disabled this time when saving it and when installing it with nothing
else
running or open. I think what happened when trying to DL all 8 from WIN
Update site, something was corrupted in the process of DL or installation.

If you scroll down here on this discussion board you will see many folks are
having all sorts of problems with this months updates from MS especially I
think if you try to take them all from the WIN Update site using Express and
doing all of them at once.

To Remove: Start/Control Panel/Add Remove Program. Tick where it says "Show
Updates" at
the top right of the window. Click on the update and then on remove.

OR you run a SEARCH for Files. If so then>>> Look for the updates from
today
KB896688, 904706,905414,905749,901017,900725,902400 and 890830(but this one
you can't uninstall). Put it in the "All or part of file name" window and it
will bring up the "uninstaller" for that update. Right click on it and OPEN
it and follow instructions. Preferably maybe do one at a time on the search
and start with 896688 as it has caused most of the problems it seems.

Dan in Wisconsin


"yy4me" wrote:

> Please help, cannot uninstall update done today. Computer is messing up. Have
> SP1. updated KB 896688 plus about 15 other updates. Had no choice. Custom
> update gave no option today to choose, just started update. Any way I can
> manually remove update if I copy the info from the list on todays calendar in
> System Restore. Updates show but will not remove. Help appreciated, I'm a
> rather new user and easily confused.