Download and Save Windows Updates

Contributor Icon Contributed by davak Date Icon September 18, 2003  
Tag Icon Tagged: Windows

Describes how to download and save Windows updates including updates for different versions of Windows.


Many times I have needed to download updates and save them for later use or reference. This often comes up when I want to repair an older, never-been-updated Windows system that doesn’t have broadband. Downloading all those updates on a landline is too painful.

This method will allow you to download updates and save them on your hard drive for any version of Windows.

1. Visit the Windows Update Catalog http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/catalog
2. Click Find Updates or Find Driver Updates
3. Select the appropriate version of Windows or category of hardware
4. Search or click on Advanced Search if you want to refine your search
5. Click Add on the updates you want to save
6. Once you have the ones you wanted selected, click on Go to Download Basket
7. Type or browse to the area you want to save the selected files
8. Click Download Now and then Accept the license agreement.
9. Let’em download.

If you have any problems, you can reference the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article on this topic.

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  • guest
    have tried your suggestion

    item 1. get a microsoft link

    item 2 options are not on that page
  • AlexTheBeast
    I just went through the recipe again. It works fine from here...
    If you are still having problems, the microsoft support link is more detailed and may provided you with more information.
  • Guest
    Okay.. I've saved the basket.

    Now how do I use them?!?
  • Anonymous
  • wwj101
    didn't work for me. could not find sp 2 among the listed items fter step 4
  • davak
    <ul id="quote">
    wwj101 wrote:
    didn't work for me. could not find sp 2 among the listed items fter step 4</ul>

    Here's how you can save and download sp2:
    http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips552.html
  • wwj101
    Thanks for the info. I also found out that at step 3, you have to choose "Windows XP SP2" instead of "Windows XP Professional XP2." The latter does not work. Thanks again.
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