I am currently on the second windows xp box that I have reinstalled for the week and just wanted to write a quick note in support of a great little tool that has saved me a fair amount of time. Even after you have installed the latest service pack for windows software, Microsoft releases a ton of patches, security updates and other junk that can take several reboots worth of windows update to be fully secure and up to date.
This is where autopatcher comes in, it will download all of the updates that have happened since Microsoft wrote it’s last service pack. From there you can either dump them onto a thumb drive or other storage and just run the autopatcher application every time you need to reinstall a computer. It also is easy to keep up to date with a nice little update script.
Autopatcher is also handy if you have a computer that is on a slow or no internet connection and you want to keep it up to date.