are you able to delete all old microsoft security updates or other old updates for programs that are running on my computer?

in Add or remove programs on my computer there are a ton of old program updates from 2008 to 2011 and I want to know if I can remove all but the updates for programs that are running on my computer?

Hello

You can clean your system using the disk Cleanup utility to remove unwanted programs from your system. Click on the link below.

Description of the tool in Windows XP disk cleanup

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310312

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