Uninstall the old Microsoft updates on hard?

What Microsoft Windows updates (Vista Home Premium) can I uninstall to make space on the hard drive? Some date back to 2008.

There is no such thing as "several" updates.

They are there to protect against a vulnerability or to provide updates to the o/s.

The purpose of take away their defeats being there.

If you need more space, you must put in a bigger hard drive. Or get an external hard drive and put your data on it.

Please use the sugestion recommended by Tommy

http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_vista-performance/need-to-clear-space-on-c-drive-unsure-which/1a45c00f-9C1B-43dB-9cbb-b74b61ae0f08>

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