Creating a CD out of Windows updates

Hello

To begin with, if this topic is already discussed in depth, please
accept my apologies. I would be very grateful if someone could point me
in the right direction.

Anyway, here's the deal. I have a old Windows XP SP2 install CD. Now,
every time I reinstall Windows on my machine, I have an increasing
number of updates to download. The last time I reinstalled Windows XP
was a couple of days ago, and I had 66 updates to download. So you can
get an idea how old the CD is.

So my question is, is there a way I can download those updates, and
save them on a CD or something, so that every time I reinstall the
operating system I don't have to waste the time/bandwidth required to
download all the updates and install them?

I am pretty sure there must be, just that I lack the necessary search
term to use on Google or something. Besides, this is easily implemented
in allmost all Linux distros (where every update is just another
package that the package manager can handle. So you could potentially
just download the .deb or .rpm packages and save them on CD for use
after reinstalls). I do not know in format Windows downloads its
updates.

Thank you very much!

.

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