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>> > Is there a good way of finding out if a HotFix update is installed on
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>> Go to Control Panel > Windows Update > View Update History and check for
>> your updates. Hotfixes are included if you did any.
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> Bob, thank you - I'm aware of that, but i need this programmatically.
It's a bit indirect but depending on how you're writing the process that
needs this information, you can use WMIC. If the correct form of the hotfix
name is KB123456, the command:
WMIC QFE WHERE HOTFIXID='KB123456'
will produce a zero-length SYSERR output if KB123456 is present. If
KB123456 is not present, the command will produce a 6-byte SYSOUT string.
This is a hack; if you're using wscript the code suggested by Mark Ferguson
elsewhere in the thread would be a better choice...or consider using
PowerShell if you can assume that it's installed on the systems on which
your program will run.
Joe Morris