If you want to save your files to your hard drive, so after a format you dont have to download them all again, here's How:

1) Logon to Windows Update

2) Choose Find updates for Microsoft Windows operating systems (right hand pane)

3) Choose Windows Update Catalogue (left hand pane)

4) Choose your version and language then Search

5) Choose one the following:

a) Critical Updates and Service Packs

b)Multi-Language Features (0)

c)Service Packs and Recommended Downloads


6)Once chosen simply click on what you want to download and then back at the top click Review Download

7)You are taken to the next page where at the top you can specify where the downloads are to be saved.

8) Click Download now. Each patch will make a directory under the root of the folder you saved them to.

Once finished you need to go to where you saved the file (s) to and then simply install all your patches.

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A.Rajesh Khanna