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Unistalling Microsoft patches

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Hammy31

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Does anyone know of a way to uninstall windows patches via the command line.

I've got a number of patches to deploy and there aren't any uninstall switches provided. Need to be able to uninstall in case of probs and will be deploying to multiple machines.

Cheers

H
 
Not all Hotfixes are uninstallable.
For those that are:

. Large Hotfixes make an entry in Add/Remove Programs
. All uninstallable Hotfixes make an entry in %WINDIR%\Windows\$NtUninstallKBxxxxxx$\Spuninst and you would execute the file found in that folder spuninst.exe as a command line.
. Shavlik is worth considering: . As is using a SuS server after testing Hotfixes:
 
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