This will also populate the Download tab with all available update files that can be downloaded, the patches that can be applied to the current machine are ticked ready to be downloaded. The program is split into tabs Going into Search and pressing Start will start the process and look for updates that can be applied to the computer it’s running on. On first running Portable Update it will need to download around 85MB of files from Microsoft before it can be used.
This has an advantage of showing all actions in the Windows Update History log as if you had used Windows Update itself.
It also uses the standard Windows API to perform the updates, the patches to be installed are copied to the Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder. Portable Update has been created with the idea of being able to download patches using an online Windows and then install them to an offline system from a source such as USB flash drive, via LAN share or network drive etc.
