OK, I have removed mine and all seems OK. I didn't like the look of the download utility which didn't seem to confident as to whether it would work on anything other than XP or not so I proceded manualy as follows.

1. Run RegEdit
2. Backup Registry
3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\
4. Delete all unwanted keys
5. Close RegEdit
6. Open Windows Explorer and go to Windows folder.
7. Send all unwanted "$uninstall" type folders to recycle bin (I'll permenantly delete later but for now I can restore). Note: I think you need to set your folder options to view hidden files to see them.

I have since shut down and rebooted with no problems.

One other thought. I think this is an all or nothing operation unless you know the order the hotfixes were applied. I wouldn't save one in the middle of that order with the intentions of restoring/removing whatever that had done as I think you could end up putting the system out of sync - ie, incompatable versions of dlls, etc. side by side.

Jon

Jon