Updating your windows operating system regularly keeps your system up-to-date with the latest bug fixes, security features and other improvements to the OS. Here we are going to give a tip that we recently learned from the leading technology website Tech2. It’s about Windows Updates Downloader (WUD), a free software that lets you to download and store Windows updates.
Why do you need Windows Updates Downloader?
For example, What if your Windows is crashed suddenly? and What if you couldn’t recover the operating system? The only option left out is, formatting your PC and installing the OS again. But re-installing will cost you few things, the software that you had installed earlier and the operating system updates that you had installed before. Later one is much costlier, because of the effort and time spent in downloading the updates from the Microsoft website and installing them. So, you will have to browse through plenty of sites to find those updates and installing them again. Do you have any other option?
Well, this tool named “Windows Updates Downloader” short formed as “WUD” is a free windows utility that allows you to download the updates from the internet and store it on your local hard disk or you can burn it on a DVD. Once you are finished formatting your PC, the stored updates can be installed quite easily without the need of downloading it again. It’s easy isn’t?
Lets see how to use this tool,
All the Windows updates are contained in Windows updates Lists (WUL’s), for each of the versions of windows – this includes Windows 7, Windows 2000 Professional , Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 8, Exchange 2003 and Office 2003. The list also includes the updates for Service Pack 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Windows Updates Downloader has a simple interface; you can choose which updates you want and for which version of windows.
Once your selection is done, just click the “Download” button at the bottom of the interface. The tool will download all the necessary updates. Now you can simply integrate them with your windows source using the popular tool nLite.
According to the information posted on WUD’s official website, the tool is expected to evolve to support software other than windows and also a feature automatic updates.
Verdict
WUD is really a useful tool for the users and particularly to administrators, who can save lot of time and speed up their network deployments and automatic updates.
How to download Windows Updates Downloader?
It’s simple! Just go to Windows Updates Downloader.com and download WUD.
