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I have 4 Windows-7 machines at home , and one of them is downloading update all the time invariably , Microsoft is happy with this setup for which they no doubt have a solid reason.

But I don't like my bandwidth hogged by duplicate downloading of files.

Is there an automated way to centralize the updates so that at least the common updates are downloaded at a particular location and then users can update their machine from the downloaded repository ?

( I believe WSUS requires Windows Server , which i do not have )

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im not sure wsus does need a server os actually. try it. – Sirex Sep 8 '11 at 11:34
Are they all running the same version of Windows 7? – ChrisF Sep 8 '11 at 11:47
yes all the versions are same – Shakehar Sep 8 '11 at 11:52
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I'd probably run wsus offline update on one system (no need for windows server), pop it in a shared folder, and update the others from that. I suspect you can probably use task scheduler to automate the whole process, and turn off automatic updates on the systems in question.

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will try that and update – Shakehar Sep 8 '11 at 13:13
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