Many people use a system image for this purpose.
An image restores your system to state it was in when the image was
made, including the programs and updates.

Acronis is very good for this, and there are a number of free apps that
will work.
You'll need an external drive to store the image.
http://www.acronis.com/
http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [PCSOFT] Windows Updates
From: Katz <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, February 11, 2011 9:55 am
To: [log in to unmask]

*I just had to reinstall all the Vista updates on my laptop, after a
system
restore. There are so many that it had to do them in batches, over 90.
Is
it possible to backup my computer with all these updates. Then, if I
have
to do a system restore, copy them from my backup so I don't have to
download
them again? I don't even mind the installing, I think it's the
downloading
that takes so long.

Diane Kroeckel
*

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