Where does windows xp update store downloaded files?

[ANDARIAL]

As title really guys just reinstalled xp home on a mates pc.new mobo,ram,cpu.
Activated over the web no problem
reinstalled (as he does not want to do a fresh install till he has backed everything up)
all updates have down loaded but refuse to install
so i was gonna delete them and redownload,but cant find the little buggers (and yes i have `view hidden files` enabled)
Please someone tell me

 

[IAmATeaf]

It's normally in a folder off the root on any drive it determines as having the right capacity. So have a look through the root folder of all the drives you have installed.

 

[ANDARIAL]

What name would i be looking for?

 

[ANDARIAL]

Never mind i found a working fix/answer here
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1928611&SiteID=1