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Here’s a question from Barb:

Hello Vista Blog!

I recently installed windows vista ultimate SP1 on my new computer, after I installed and connected to the internet, I noticed that Windows update started installing a bunch of other updates, when I say a bunch I mean a bunch, because it looked like it was over 1GB of data and when I checked my hard drive to see how much additional space was taken I discovered that indeed it was over a gig of space.

It’s not that I have a problem with this additional space being taken up, because I have a 750GB hard drive (lucky me), however, I was wondering if there was a way for me to save these updates, I mean save them to disc , i.e. DVD or CD?

Thanks I’ll wait for an answer,

Barb

Hello Barb!

I can understand why you would want to save your updates, even for those on a highspeed line it can be frustrating when you’re updating more than one system, especially if the other computers don’t share the highspeed connection.

First ) you might want to check out Windows Update Catalog for more information on how to download updates and drivers from the Widows Update Catalog.

Second ) here we will provide a step-by-step guide for how to use Windows Update.

1. Go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
2. Click “Personalize Windows Update”.
3. Now select the display the link to Windows Update Catalog located under the “See Also” check box.
4. Next click “Save” to save your settings.
5. Now a Windows Update Catalog link will appear under “See Also”, click the link.
6. Next click Find updates for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
7. Now select your specific product and then click “Search”.
8. Next click the “Critical Updates and Service Packs” link.
9. Now locate the patch you need and then click “Add”.
10. Finally select “Go to download basket”, now in the Type or Browse to the download location of your choice box you will need to select the path to which you desire the patch to be saved to, you may want to save this to somewhere you can easily access it, perhaps the desktop or an easily locatable folder.

After the updates have downloaded you can burn them using your favorite DVD/CD burning software so you can have them for another computer that might not have access to a highspeed connection.

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