
The Offline Updater when ran on a Windows install will only apply updates valid to it and the version of Office installed. The more Windows versions you select, the more you need to download. I have also selected Windows 8.1 x86 and Windows 8.1 圆4 for the few installs of these that I have. As I am managing multiple Windows 7 32 Bit and Windows 64 Bit installs, I have selected Windows 7 x86 and Windows 圆4. Select the version(s) of Windows you want to update. Do this on a working computer connected to the internet. The first thing you will need to do is extract WSUSoffline and open the extracted folder. For Windows 8.0 systems, its recommended to download Windows 8.1 directly and perform a clean installation. Windows 8.0 is not supported in this set of Windows Reinstallation Guides due to the many difficulties and problems caused by Microsoft in forcing Windows 8 Service Pack 1 (renamed Windows 8.1) through the Microsoft Store. After its done the administrator account it makes will be deleted.


The WSUS Offline Update has a means of "Automatic Reboot and Recall" where it makes a temporary administrator account, restarts the computer and begins installing the next batch of updates until its done.

Theres about 200 updates to install for a Windows 7 SP1 Office 2010 SP1 configuration. The guide is focused on Windows 7 as there is no Windows 7 Service Pack 2 and it can hence take an extremely long time to patch Windows 7 fully using Windows Update. The rest of the guide uses Windows 7 as an example. The procedure for patching Windows Vista and Windows 8.1 are identical.

WSUS Offline Update may be downloaded here: This guide has a complimentary video tutorial for Windows 7 and Windows XP (you must use the older version 9.2.1 of WSUS Offline Update for Windows XP). Updating your Windows Installation Offline.Using the WSUS Offline Update to Download all the Windows Updates.
