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D. McFadyen
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      04-18-2007
I'm running Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2 and approximately 95
updates installed since December, 2004. Now I'm running out of space on my
hard drive. Can I remove these updates? All of them? Some of them? If so,
which ones. Many Thanks for your help!
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TaurArian
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      04-18-2007
No.

See -
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htm
and
http://aumha.org/win5/a/sp2faq.php#after

"D. McFadyen" wrote:

> I'm running Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2 and approximately 95
> updates installed since December, 2004. Now I'm running out of space on my
> hard drive. Can I remove these updates? All of them? Some of them? If so,
> which ones. Many Thanks for your help!
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> D. McFadyen

 
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Peter Foldes
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      04-18-2007
If you mean the ones in C:\Windows then You can remove those(not uninstall) except for the $hf_mig$ file. Do not remove this file.

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"D. McFadyen" <> wrote in message news:3F96F614-43D7-4AAE-9867-...
> I'm running Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2 and approximately 95
> updates installed since December, 2004. Now I'm running out of space on my
> hard drive. Can I remove these updates? All of them? Some of them? If so,
> which ones. Many Thanks for your help!
> --
> D. McFadyen

 
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John Butler
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      04-18-2007
"D. McFadyen"

You should not remove the updates but as Peter Foldes says you can remove
the uninstallers. Thre is a neat inexpensive shareware toold thta does this,
telling you what is going to be affected before you do it.

<www.pcshareware.com/contact.htm>

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"Peter Foldes" <> wrote in message
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If you mean the ones in C:\Windows then You can remove those(not uninstall)
except for the $hf_mig$ file. Do not remove this file.

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"D. McFadyen" <> wrote in message
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> I'm running Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2 and approximately
> 95
> updates installed since December, 2004. Now I'm running out of space on
> my
> hard drive. Can I remove these updates? All of them? Some of them? If
> so,
> which ones. Many Thanks for your help!
> --
> D. McFadyen



 
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Microsoft
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      04-19-2007
> Thre is a neat inexpensive shareware toold thta does this,
> telling you what is going to be affected before you do it.
> www.pcshareware.com/contact.htm


Actually, the direct link to the shareware tool that you are refering to is
http://www.pcshareware.com/update.htm

The link that John provided is actually the 'contact us' page for the web
site.

HTH




 
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