If you remove a hotfix or other update using Add/Remove Programs then it's
gone, you're once again open to the vulnerability that hotfix was patching
and Windows Update will detect that you don't have it and offer it to you
again.

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Kari
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> I just pulled up my add and remove programs , and there
> are alot of Windows XP hotfix in it . I count something
> like 27 of them. do they need to stay in there or are
> they put in there temoporary, when you update....