Question : Move Windows Patch/Update files

Is there a way to have all the Windows XP patches and updates be downloaded to a specified folder?

As is stands all the downloads are placed in the System32 folder with some obscure naming structure.  If at all possible, I would like to specify a separate location for these files to download to.  I have searched high and low for this answer, any help is greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

Answer : Move Windows Patch/Update files

so, to answer that question, i believe the answer is no, you cannot because the environment variable "%systemroot%" is used to extrapolate where to put it. I think that is probably hard-coded into  the wuauclt.exe executable. to change that path, you'd have to change the environment variable %systemroot% which is not a good idea.