Q: What’s the Microsoft Update
Catalog 7.0?
A: Microsoft has released a new
version of its catalog Web site,
which lists updates, drivers, and
hotfixes that you can download
from update.microsoft.com for
local installation. The catalog is
available at catalog.update.micro
soft.com/v7/site/Home.aspx.
To use the site, enter a term
in the search box on the main
page (e.g., vista 64-bit driver) and
click Search. A list of all matching updates will be displayed. Click
Add next to each update you want
to download, which adds the
update to the update basket.
You can perform multiple
searches and add more updates
to the basket. After all the desired
updates are in the basket, click
the view basket link under the
search box, which displays all the
updates in the update basket, as
Figure 1 shows.
Click the Download button,
and you’ll be prompted
to confirm a folder to which to
download the updates, then click
Continue. After the download
is complete, click Close in the
download window.
Each update is placed in a separate
subfolder in the destination
folder, and each subfolder has the
same name as the update title.
You can then manually install the
updates by double-clicking them, or you can inject them into a Windows
Imaging Format (WIM) file.