Copy it to the My Documents folder. It will not be written to there.
Leave the original copy where it is located, WINDOWS.
Why do you want to preserve it ?
BTW, all successful updates are logged to the ReportingEvents.log that
is located in WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution
MowGreen [MVP 2003-2008]
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Never Forgotten
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