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Frank - 30 Jul 2005 19:02 GMT

In Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs, I have 20 or more Windows Hotfixes.
Is there a way of hiding these hotfixes? I don't want to remove or uninstall
the hotfixes, just prevent them from appearing on the list. Thanks in
advance.

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David Nimon - 30 Jul 2005 19:19 GMT

There's a checkbox on the window to show Window updates or not. Just uncheck
it.

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> In Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs, I have 20 or more Windows
> Hotfixes.
> Is there a way of hiding these hotfixes? I don't want to remove or
> uninstall
> the hotfixes, just prevent them from appearing on the list. Thanks in
> advance.

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Terra Prime - 30 Jul 2005 20:37 GMT

> There's a checkbox on the window to show Window updates or not. Just
> uncheck it.

If you aren't using Windows XP with SP2 installed, that check box does not
exist.

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>> In Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs, I have 20 or more Windows
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>> the hotfixes, just prevent them from appearing on the list. Thanks
>> in advance.

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MAP - 31 Jul 2005 13:08 GMT

> There's a checkbox on the window to show Window updates or not. Just
> uncheck it.
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>> the hotfixes, just prevent them from appearing on the list. Thanks
>> in advance.

If you don't have SP2.
This is from kellys-korner.com

Hide selective programs/applications listed in Add or Remove:

Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

Local the program in question in the left pane. In the right pane, right
click DisplayName and select rename: Add Quiet so it will read:
QuietDisplayName. No reboot or refresh needed. Open Add or Remove - the
listing is now gone. To revert, rename back to DisplayName.

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Terra Prime - 30 Jul 2005 19:29 GMT

> In Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs, I have 20 or more Windows
> Hotfixes. Is there a way of hiding these hotfixes? I don't want to
> remove or uninstall the hotfixes, just prevent them from appearing on
> the list. Thanks in advance.

Assuming you have windows XP, you can hide them by check the Show Updates
box at the top of the Add.Remove Programs window. Note that this box only
appears on systems running Windows XP with SP2 installed. Other operating
systems do not have that option.

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Thomas Wendell - 31 Jul 2005 15:45 GMT

Get this:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_hotfix_backup.htm

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> In Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs, I have 20 or more Windows Hotfixes.
> Is there a way of hiding these hotfixes? I don't want to remove or uninstall
> the hotfixes, just prevent them from appearing on the list. Thanks in
> advance.

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Frank - 31 Jul 2005 17:05 GMT

Since I use XP Pro SP1, there is no checkbox. So I used both Mike's
suggestion (Regedit) and Thomas' hotfix download. Both worked very nicely.
No more hotfixes show in the Add/Remove list. Thanks guys!

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