bardos Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 i have faithfully updated my winxp sp2 from the ms website. What i have left are 4 or 5 security updates which show 0 KB. What does this mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cumminbk Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 my guess is they are already on your system somehow and they just need to be installed.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 What i have left are 4 or 5 security updates which show 0 KB.Would you mind providing a screenshot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boooggy Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 it might be that those fixes are already downloaded in your computer but for some reason they didnt get installed..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbolt 2864 Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Yeah, it means that you have those updates on your computer but they aren't installed yet. I've seen that on my computer before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bardos Posted December 1, 2006 Author Share Posted December 1, 2006 (edited) correct, i have found reference to them in my windows folder. so what do i do? delete them in the windows folder?thx. Edited December 1, 2006 by bardos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 correct, i have found reference to them in my windows folder. so what do i do? delete them in the windows folder?Yes, they are the backups for uninstalling a hotfix, however, that is highly recommended against. It won't do any harm to your system by removing them.Check out my blog post about system maintenance here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bardos Posted December 2, 2006 Author Share Posted December 2, 2006 correct, i have found reference to them in my windows folder. so what do i do? delete them in the windows folder?Yes, they are the backups for uninstalling a hotfix, however, that is highly recommended against. It won't do any harm to your system by removing them.Check out my blog post about system maintenance here.so what you're saying is that i could (and should) delete all those folders in C:\windows that begin with $NtUninstallKBxxxxxxx? as well as the $hf_mig$ folder? that they serve no purpose?thx.just one question... i had always thought, perhaps erroneously, that the MS windows update site checked those exact folders to see which updates one was lacking... if that is the case, then if i deleted all those folders it would report that i needed to install all those updates again. plz enlighten me about that if you can... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 so what you're saying is that i could (and should) delete all those folders in C:\windows that begin with $NtUninstallKBxxxxxxx? as well as the $hf_mig$ folder? that they serve no purpose?They do serve a purpose, that is to restore the Windows files to their previously non-updated versions. However, most people don't do that because you wouldn't want to undo a security fix for some sort of 0-day security flaw that "crap out there" is trying to exploit. Especially if you don't have any protection (firewall).just one question... i had always thought, perhaps erroneously, that the MS windows update site checked those exact folders to see which updates one was lacking... if that is the case, then if i deleted all those folders it would report that i needed to install all those updates again. plz enlighten me about that if you canNo, Windows Updates verifies that info with the .CAT files located in:C:\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot\{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE} <(the numbers and letters may be different for you) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bardos Posted December 2, 2006 Author Share Posted December 2, 2006 so what you're saying is that i could (and should) delete all those folders in C:\windows that begin with $NtUninstallKBxxxxxxx? as well as the $hf_mig$ folder? that they serve no purpose?They do serve a purpose, that is to restore the Windows files to their previously non-updated versions. However, most people don't do that because you wouldn't want to undo a security fix for some sort of 0-day security flaw that "crap out there" is trying to exploit. Especially if you don't have any protection (firewall).just one question... i had always thought, perhaps erroneously, that the MS windows update site checked those exact folders to see which updates one was lacking... if that is the case, then if i deleted all those folders it would report that i needed to install all those updates again. plz enlighten me about that if you canNo, Windows Updates verifies that info with the .CAT files located in:C:\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot\{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE} <(the numbers and letters may be different for you)just went to MS update after deleting all those files and folders... and the updates i had listed to install by the update site were still at zero KB. so i went to the CAT folder you mentioned and deleted the cat files with the KB numbers of those 0KB files on the update site. Just gone back to the MS update site to see what happens now...still at zero.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Try stopping the Automatic Updates Service and Cryptographic Services and deleting the contents of both the CatRoot and CatRoot2 folders and try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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