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Delete WindowsUpdate uninstall files?
I recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. In Windows XP, I
used to delete all files named C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstall* . These files are created by Windows Update. They contain information that makes it possible to undo operations performed by Windows Update. I cannot find any similar files in Windows 7. Do they exist? How to find them? -- David Arnstein (00) {{ }} ^^ |
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Delete WindowsUpdate uninstall files?
David Arnstein wrote:
I recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. In Windows XP, I used to delete all files named C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstall* . These files are created by Windows Update. They contain information that makes it possible to undo operations performed by Windows Update. I cannot find any similar files in Windows 7. Do they exist? How to find them? I used to do that in W2k. The uninstall files may not exist in Windows 7 because "uninstalling" updates is done with restore points. -- Crash Life is short. Eat dessert first. |
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Delete WindowsUpdate uninstall files?
"Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message
... David Arnstein wrote: I recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. In Windows XP, I used to delete all files named C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstall* . These files are created by Windows Update. They contain information that makes it possible to undo operations performed by Windows Update. I cannot find any similar files in Windows 7. Do they exist? How to find them? I used to do that in W2k. The uninstall files may not exist in Windows 7 because "uninstalling" updates is done with restore points. But wouldn't that make uninstalling updates a simple chronological reversal process? In other words, if I wanted to uninstall the fourth most recent update only, wouldn't W7 have to go back to that restore point and effectively uninstall the three updates after that (plus any other similar later changes affected by the restore process)? I didn't think it worked that way - it looks like you can uninstall any update using the normal Control Panel uninstall mechanism. IME, after several early W7 updates failed to install correctly, I uninstalled and reinstalled them (although they still failed to install correctly!!!), but it didn't affect any later updates or programs I had installed. -- Jeff |
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Delete WindowsUpdate uninstall files?
Jeff Layman wrote:
"Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message ... David Arnstein wrote: I recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. In Windows XP, I used to delete all files named C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstall* . These files are created by Windows Update. They contain information that makes it possible to undo operations performed by Windows Update. I cannot find any similar files in Windows 7. Do they exist? How to find them? I used to do that in W2k. The uninstall files may not exist in Windows 7 because "uninstalling" updates is done with restore points. But wouldn't that make uninstalling updates a simple chronological reversal process? In other words, if I wanted to uninstall the fourth most recent update only, wouldn't W7 have to go back to that restore point and effectively uninstall the three updates after that (plus any other similar later changes affected by the restore process)? I didn't think it worked that way - it looks like you can uninstall any update using the normal Control Panel uninstall mechanism. IME, after several early W7 updates failed to install correctly, I uninstalled and reinstalled them (although they still failed to install correctly!!!), but it didn't affect any later updates or programs I had installed. You are probably right, but I don't know where any "uninstall" folders are. I'm a newbie to Windows 7 and a slow learner. I ran Windows 2000 for ten years and still didn't know everything. :-) -- Crash "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission." ~ Grace Hopper (RADM, USNR) ~ |
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Delete WindowsUpdate uninstall files?
"Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message
... Jeff Layman wrote: "Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message ... David Arnstein wrote: I recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. In Windows XP, I used to delete all files named C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstall* . These files are created by Windows Update. They contain information that makes it possible to undo operations performed by Windows Update. I cannot find any similar files in Windows 7. Do they exist? How to find them? I used to do that in W2k. The uninstall files may not exist in Windows 7 because "uninstalling" updates is done with restore points. But wouldn't that make uninstalling updates a simple chronological reversal process? In other words, if I wanted to uninstall the fourth most recent update only, wouldn't W7 have to go back to that restore point and effectively uninstall the three updates after that (plus any other similar later changes affected by the restore process)? I didn't think it worked that way - it looks like you can uninstall any update using the normal Control Panel uninstall mechanism. IME, after several early W7 updates failed to install correctly, I uninstalled and reinstalled them (although they still failed to install correctly!!!), but it didn't affect any later updates or programs I had installed. You are probably right, but I don't know where any "uninstall" folders are. I'm a newbie to Windows 7 and a slow learner. I ran Windows 2000 for ten years and still didn't know everything. :-) You aren't the only one slow at learning Win 7! I ran XP for 8 years (still run it on a desktop) and went straight from that to Win 7. I avoided Vista (I thought - but if you ask your PC what version of Windows it is now running, it won't say 7, but 6.1...) as I didn't want all the problems. But Win 7 is a whole new learning process, not helped by Microsoft's inability to stop fiddling with things that don't need to be fiddled with, and their insistence on doing things their way (for example, why make the new desktop icon immovable?). But to go back to the OP's original question, the update files are probably somewhere in c:/windows/winsxs. It seems best not to play with that folder. More info he http://www.winvistaclub.com/f16.html -- Jeff |
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