[Question] "offline" windows update?

[Spinman]

Just rebuilt a friends system. He is on dial-up - so rather than spend 10 hours downloading the various window updates - I ran the update and wrote down all the KB's that were listed. Downloaded offsite on a broadband connection - and transfered them to his hard disk via a flash drive. Then I manually installed all 30+ updates. Total time = 25 minutes.

Was wondering - would it have been possible to transfer the various update files I manually downloaded into a specific directory on his machine that the windows updates web site would check - see that the file already exists - and install it automatically?

Are the files that are downloaded via windows update stored somewhere on the system? I'd like to copy them and save them for future rebuild under the above scenario.

Just curious - did a disk search, but did not come up with any likely locations...

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--Sonic

[Sonic]

Personnaly I have a batch which it's reinstall all post sp2 updates. It's not bad to replace fresh dll. But if you want check if KB is already present, check in Windows directory there are KBxxxxxx.log file for each update.