Wonderful use of Windows Update to speed up the system upgrade

Whenever the operating system is reinstalled, the first thing we need to do is to upgrade the system. However, Microsoft's upgrade website is usually busy. If we can download the upgrade patch with multi-threaded download software, it will naturally Can speed up system upgrades. Let's take Windows XP as an example to see how to download the patch.

Method 1

If you are a LAN user and a computer on the LAN has been updated to the latest state, you can find it under "%systemroot%\\Windows" on this computer. Windows Update.log file ("%systemroot%" is the drive letter installed by the system, generally "C:"). Open the file with Notepad, you can see that it contains all the updated program records, including the format The link such as "http://download.Windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update.../.exe" is the download address of the patch. Create a new text file, named "Update.lst", and then copy the download address recorded in the log to the text file according to the format of one address per line, start the FlashGet download tool, click the "File → Import List" command, select "Update.lst" can be. After the tasks are all downloaded, double-click and install the patches one by one in the order recorded in the log (usually from top to bottom).

Method 2

If it is a stand-alone user, first click the "Start → Windows Update" command, then click "Scan for Update" in the list on the left side of the page that opens, and then click "Review" Install Updates to see which patches need to be updated. Then click the "Install Now" button. When the dialog box for downloading the patch appears, select "Cancel". Then you can find "Windows Update.log" in the "%systemroot%\\Windows" directory in the Explorer. "Files! Then download and install the patch according to the method described above.

In fact, when the system is automatically updated, those patches have been downloaded to the temporary folder of the local disk. The specific location is also recorded in the "Windows update.log" log file. Files, you can find these patches based on the recorded temporary folder.