use Windows Update to install updates available on another compute

Here is the scenario I'd like to be able to follow:
1. On the machine that needs the updates (hereafter #1), let Windows Update
determine which critical updates are needed. #1 has only a dial-up
connection, so downloading these updates directly to this machine would take
an unacceptably long time.
2. On another machine (hereafter #2), which is a laptop, and which at its
normal location has a high-speed connection, download the updates that
Windows Update says #1 needs.
3. Transport #2 to the location of #1 and connect the two machines together.
4. Somehow inform Windows Update on #1 that the updates it is recommending
for that machine are already available (on #2). Therefore it doesn't need to
download them on #1.
5. Let Windows Update running on #1 install these updates on that machine,
obtaining them from #2.

The only part of this scenario that I don't immediately see how to do is
step 4.

I have installed WXP SP2 on #1 using the free CD available from Microsoft.
Now I want to install on that machine the additional updates that have become
available since SP2, some of which are quite large. I'm sure there must be a
way to install updates on machines with slow connections that does not
involve physical media such as CDs, when these updates have been made
available by other means.

Bruce;
Use the Windows Update Catalog, #1 on this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/wufix.htm
Download the specific updates and burn them to CD for use on any computer.

You can not do what you want without the laptop running server software such
as Windows Server 2003.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"Bruce Toronto" <> wrote in message
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> Here is the scenario I'd like to be able to follow:
> 1. On the machine that needs the updates (hereafter #1), let Windows
> Update
> determine which critical updates are needed. #1 has only a dial-up
> connection, so downloading these updates directly to this machine would
> take
> an unacceptably long time.
> 2. On another machine (hereafter #2), which is a laptop, and which at its
> normal location has a high-speed connection, download the updates that
> Windows Update says #1 needs.
> 3. Transport #2 to the location of #1 and connect the two machines
> together.
> 4. Somehow inform Windows Update on #1 that the updates it is
> recommending
> for that machine are already available (on #2). Therefore it doesn't need
> to
> download them on #1.
> 5. Let Windows Update running on #1 install these updates on that
> machine,
> obtaining them from #2.
>
> The only part of this scenario that I don't immediately see how to do is
> step 4.
>
> I have installed WXP SP2 on #1 using the free CD available from Microsoft.
> Now I want to install on that machine the additional updates that have
> become
> available since SP2, some of which are quite large. I'm sure there must
> be a
> way to install updates on machines with slow connections that does not
> involve physical media such as CDs, when these updates have been made
> available by other means.