[pchelpers] Re: add/remove items in question

Hey Scott,
Did I forget to thank you yesterday? If so, please forgive me and accept 
my gratitude. Thanks.

GTCox

Scott McNay wrote:
> Hi Re-Na,
>
> Thursday, July 19, 2007, 11:25:35 AM, you wrote:
>
> GRH> In add/remove programs, I have a long list of windows xp hotfixes and 
> GRH> security updates for windows xp.
> GRH> Do I need to keep all of these or can I delete the majority of them?
>
> In addition to what Jackie said, if you have XP SP2, then there's a
> checkbox at the top that you can mark to hide them all.
>
>
> Jackie, my understanding is that the $hf_mig$ folder (which I
> mentioned to George yesterday, but didn't say why it was special),
> contains the files used to ensure that an uninstall of an older patch
> does not result in newer patches being disturbed (for example, if two
> patches update a file, and you uninstall the older patch, Windows will
> reapply the newer patch so that the correct newer file is still there.
> So, that SHOULD prevent instability from that source. It's new with
> SP2, as I recall.
>
>   


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