Removing Patches

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Removing Patches
While it should be a rare occurrence, you may find yourself in
a situation where you need to remove a patch. In the past several
years, personally, I have never needed to remove a patch,
but I was in a situation recently where an Internet Explorer
(IE) patch changed the way that IE worked, in a very subtle
but irritating way. But by the time I was ready to pull the
patch out, Microsoft came out with a new security patch that
fixed newly discovered vulnerabilities and (oh yeah) corrected
the anomaly.
If you’re not sure which patch you need to remove, you will
need to cross-reference the “Q article” number found on
Microsoft’s Web site (Figure 9-10 shows an example). To find a
specific Q article, type in Q and the article number (for example,
Q324096) in the search field on Microsoft’s Web site.
Read up on what the patch does before you try to remove it.
Make sure the cure isn’t worse than the disease. Then you can
follow this procedure to remove the patch:
1. Choose Start➪Settings➪Control Panel. Then select
Add/Remove Programs.
2. If you’re sure that you have identified a patch to
remove, select it from the Add/Remove Programs
window and click the Change/Remove button.
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Figure 9-10: List of installed patches (note the Q article).
3. In the Uninstall wizard, click Next and answer any
questions to remove the patch.
4. Reboot your computer.
Gotta do it.

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