emm Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 Hot fix uninstallers removes Windows updates from Windows Updates from Windows/$UninstallKB$. What exactly is that? Is it safe to remove this updates? It is in the Advance section of the Windows /Applications menu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davey Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 Hot fix uninstallers removes Windows updates from Windows Updates from Windows/$UninstallKB$. What exactly is that? Is it safe to remove this updates? It is in the Advance section of the Windows /Applications menu Hello again emm, Good to see you. See this link for an answer. http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=100704 davey P.S. So as you can see, the Hot Fix remains installed. The uninstaller for the Hot Fix is removed. You do not have to do this every month. You can wait several months before doing this. Just be sure to turn the option off right after you use it. If you ticked the option TONIGHT and forgot to turn it off then the Hot Fix Uninstallers for the fixes coming out tomorrow "PATCH Tuesday" would be removed the next time that you run CCleaner. You want to wait awhile to be sure that the fixes are working correctly before you remove the Uninstaller programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emm Posted October 8, 2008 Author Share Posted October 8, 2008 Hello again emm,Good to see you. See this link for an answer. http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=100704 davey P.S. So as you can see, the Hot Fix remains installed. The uninstaller for the Hot Fix is removed. You do not have to do this every month. You can wait several months before doing this. Just be sure to turn the option off right after you use it. If you ticked the option TONIGHT and forgot to turn it off then the Hot Fix Uninstallers for the fixes coming out tomorrow "PATCH Tuesday" would be removed the next time that you run CCleaner. You want to wait awhile to be sure that the fixes are working correctly before you remove the Uninstaller programs. ------ I see. The uninstaller for the hot fix is removed, but the hot fix remains installed. But what is a hot fix? If I remove the uninstaller for it, is it still possible to remove the "hot fix" if it were necessary at a future time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davey Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 ------I see. The uninstaller for the hot fix is removed, but the hot fix remains installed. But what is a hot fix? If I remove the uninstaller for it, is it still possible to remove the "hot fix" if it were necessary at a future time. Hi emm, Hot Fix ? Sounds ominous doesn't it. These fixes are normally just updates nowadays. They normally come out once a month on the second Tuesday of the month. Affectionately called "Patch Tuesday". You never have to delete the Uninstaller for a Hot Fix. Many people do and many save them all. You can normally figure that a fix that has been in effect for a couple of months is not going to be Unistalled. It may be corrected with a later fix. Some people will wait 2 -3 weeks and then get rid of the uninstaller for the Hot Fix. If you need the disk space then you can recover the space. It is up to you if you want to keep the Uninstaller or not. Once the Uninstaller is gone, the fix can't be reversed. davey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emm Posted October 9, 2008 Author Share Posted October 9, 2008 Hi emm,Hot Fix ? Sounds ominous doesn't it. These fixes are normally just updates nowadays. They normally come out once a month on the second Tuesday of the month. Affectionately called "Patch Tuesday". You never have to delete the Uninstaller for a Hot Fix. Many people do and many save them all. You can normally figure that a fix that has been in effect for a couple of months is not going to be Unistalled. It may be corrected with a later fix. Some people will wait 2 -3 weeks and then get rid of the uninstaller for the Hot Fix. If you need the disk space then you can recover the space. It is up to you if you want to keep the Uninstaller or not. Once the Uninstaller is gone, the fix can't be reversed. davey OK, I am still cofused. Where does the hot fix come from. Who sends them t your computer, and where do they get stored. Under what name they they get stored. I just want to be able to look at them and decide if is something that I want to keep for good, or something that I might want to uninstall at some point, therefore would need to keep the uninstaller for it. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davey Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 OK, I am still cofused. Where does the hot fix come from. Who sends them t your computer, and where do they get stored. Under what name they they get stored. I just want to be able to look at them and decide if is something that I want to keep for good, or something that I might want to uninstall at some point, therefore would need to keep the uninstaller for it.Thanks You can learn more about Hot Fixes here and the links therein. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_fix Are you currently getting Automatic Updates from Microsoft from the following link ? http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdat...t.aspx?ln=en-us Most updates from Microsoft that actually fix known "software" problems will have an Uninstaller. If the fix does not work correctly than you can use the Uninstaller to reverse the fix and set things back as they were before the fix. I have been using Microsoft Updates now for approx. 15 months now and I have never had reason to remove a Fix. For now I would say to you, just leave the Uninstallers alone until you learn more. davey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emm Posted October 9, 2008 Author Share Posted October 9, 2008 You can learn more about Hot Fixes here and the links therein. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_fix Are you currently getting Automatic Updates from Microsoft from the following link ? http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdat...t.aspx?ln=en-us Most updates from Microsoft that actually fix known "software" problems will have an Uninstaller. If the fix does not work correctly than you can use the Uninstaller to reverse the fix and set things back as they were before the fix. I have been using Microsoft Updates now for approx. 15 months now and I have never had reason to remove a Fix. For now I would say to you, just leave the Uninstallers alone until you learn more. davey Thanks Davie, I will check those links you sent me. For now I will leave those fixes alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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