The
Autopatcher team seems to be back on track with the release of core and update Autopatcher files for Windows XP, Windows 2000 and
Windows 2003 Server. Additionally, and for the first time, Autopatcher files for Office 2002, 2003 and 2007 have been released as well.
Versions for Vista and
Windows Server 2003 64-bit will follow shortly thereafter. Let me explain the Autopatcher concept with just a few words. Instead of connecting to Microsoft to either use the automatic updates or to
download the patches manually you can download Autopatcher instead which contains all official patches released by Microsoft.
The advantages are of course that you can apply all relevant patches at once, have total control over which patches are applied and do not have to connect to a
Microsoft server at all to download and apply the patches. This is also a great way for admins or users with more than one operating system to download the files once and execute it on as many
computers as needed.
The difference between core and update patches are that the core files contain all patches from the beginning to the current month while the updates only contain the patches that were released by Microsoft since the last Autopatcher version, which usually means patches of the last 30 days.
source:
Autopatcher Homepage