Add/Remove Programs

@hermangrrrman! wrote:

When I go to add/remove programs in my control panel, I have loads of these:

Windows 2000 Hotfix – KB then random 6 digits.

Anyone know what they are? And whether I can get rid? :oops:

Don’t want to that Herman m8, those are the patches that we all get from good old Billy Gates to protect our humble desktops from going wrong, they bolster up things like security leaks in software eg Windows, Office, Media player etc etc, when they bring out the latest Service Packs (Service Pack Three for XP due out soon) it is usually all the hotfixes rolled into one.

Sorry m8, got to live with em

:wink:

If you don’t want to see them there is a box iat the top of the ”Add/Remove” programmes list called ”Show Updates”. If you uncheck this box then all the Windows updates won’t be shown.

However, as Druid has absolutely correctly told you ….. whatever you do DO NOT attempt to delete or alter any of these ‘hotfixes’ as they are what protects your computer from all the nasty little exploits that geeks the world over have discovered to stuff up Windows and thereby prove what clever little kiddies they are.