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by lokiperson

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Hello all! *excited* First time to post a question on a site I read religiously on a daily basis! Good Work all to a wonderfully kept and maintained site! Keep up the GREAT WORK! Ok to my question (Actually 2 questions:] ):

Seems a stupid question, but I honestly don't know the answer. In the 'Add-Remove programs' in either Vista or XP, sometimes there appears in the populated list"Remove Only". What exactly are these? Is this the installer app. for the program? Perhaps so you can clean up space by removing the installer after installation?
And in the same lists...
I have TONS of items like "security update for Windows Explorer KB XXX.xx etc", "Update for XP" Hot fix for XP" (and/or IE)...
Can these updates be removed in the list (uninstalled) safely? In other words are these the actual updates, and removing them in this list will not effect XP or IE7... Will the security updates remain embedded in XP and IE7 if I uninstall in this list?

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by oh smeg

The Items that appear as Remove Only are there as the name Implies to Remove Only you can not perform a Repair of that Application from there if at all.

As for the listings of the Hot Fixes/Patches in the Add Remove Programs these are the Actual Updates from M$ so removing them removes the Hot Fix/Patch from the system and the next time you log onto the Next Windows will download and install them again depending on how Auto Updates is set. Applies to Both XP & Vista.

If you need more space on the drive you can Compress the Drive by opening My Computer and right Clicking on the Drive in question then scroll down the Drop Down Menu left click on Proprieties and when the Window opens add a tick to the Compress Drive Box toward the bottom of that window on the left hand side.

You should also run Defrag constantly and if you have a FAT32 Partition on the XP Box convert it to a NTFS Partition as that will clear up a Lot of Slack Space and give you more room.

I hope that helps you.

Col

by lokiperson

Thank you for your fast reply. No confusion here. Your response was as I suspected.

As for space, I really don't need it... I guess I'm never happy with my builds :] Constantly tinkering and tweaking is all... And noticed the same list of items on all the XP boxes I have built, the same populated list in "Add-Remove".
Thank you again for your help!

LOKIPERSON

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