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Message: [QUOTE="Bob F, post: 14204510"] I'm looking at how this update program/system works in the environment of home computers. Looking at the files on my PC it has produced, it looks like it stores the data files in "client" and "iso" subdirectories under the wsusoffline folder. I ran the program version 8.3 last year, and it contains ~4.5GB of data in those 2 directories. I just downloaded V8.6 and had it get the latest XP updates, and ended up with ~1GB of data. Doing some googleing, it becomes apparent that this program is really intended to big network servers doing automatic updates to many PCs. I'm trying to understand how things are stored, and how WSUS updates affect this process. The V8.6 data and the V8.3 data are in differennt directories. Since the 8.6 data is significantly smaller, I'm wondering if it found the other directory and just added what it needed. What I'd like to do is create a hard drive just for these updates for use on any of my PCs I need to work on with XP in the future. If I just delete the WSUS directories I have now and copy the WSUS software to a harddrive and run it from there, will that work. Is it the right way to do it? [/QUOTE]