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If you want to reclaim space on a Windows XP Pro hard drive, then removing the old security updates is desirable. If you're using Windows 2000 Pro, the same applies. I don't normally remove updates from the C:\WINDOWS folder until at least one month after the system is updated -- and rebooted several times.

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