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Curious, as that has not been my experience at all Tom. Including the system
I am writing this from, which I know had at least 14-15 of the older
uninstall directories on it, the SP2 installation left only the the one
uninstall directory for itself. There is no sign anywhere of the older
individual directories. This was using the stand-alone network installation,
not the MSDN version.
I have not tested by uninstalling from this system to see if the older
uninstall directories are returned. Perhaps I should, it'd be curious to see
if they did.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"Tom Porterfield" <tpporter@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Rick "Nutcase" Rogers wrote:
>>>and what about the pre-SP2 fixes that i used to find in the
>>>add/remove program section ?
>>
>> They should be gone already. The SP replaced them, and removed the
>> associated uninstall folders in the Windows directory. All you should see
>> is the SP entry, then aforementioned SP2 uninstall folder.
>
> I did not find that to be the case on the systems I upgraded to SP2. Yes
> the entries were gone from Add or Remove Programs, but the uninstall
> folders for those older hotfixes remained in the Windows directory. This
> makes sense as an uninstall of SP2 should put the uninstall entries for
> the older hotfixes back, meaning you might also want the uninstall files
> to actually be able to uninstall those older hotfixes. This is a long
> undo trail, one I did not feel the need to retain, so I deleted all of the
> old hotfix uninstall folders, leaving only the SP2 uninstall folder.
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> Tom Porterfield
> MS-MVP MCE
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