Microsoft with the release of Windows 8 has brought some pre-installed applications that provide basic features such as news reading, e-mail opening, or photo management.
The company continues to add more applications to every major version of the operating system and there are now some 20 different basic applications installed in the operating system from its very first startup.
These applications are regularly updated just like other applications with company updates.
Usually a visit to your Windows Store on your computer will allow you to download and install the updates. Sometimes it may not be that easy.
For example, there is no direct way to download these updates to offline computers Internet. System administrators who need to update multiple systems may also want to download them only once so that they do not have to download them continuously to each computer.
Below we describe how to download Windows applications manually (manually and not automatically)
To download applications for Windows 8.x:
- Visit the following website Microsoft knowledgebase and scroll down until you find all the basic applications included on the page
- Note the KB number of the application you want.
- Visit the page https://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Home.aspx using Internet Explorer.
- You will be prompted to install the Microsoft Update extension Catalog. Proceed with the installation.
- Once this is done, type the KB number in the search for the second web page and click the search button.
- The website will show you the list of available updates - usually for 32-bit and 64-bit systems - that you can add to your cart.
- Once you've added all the updates you need, open the cart and click the Download button.
- Select a local folder to save the executable files of the applications.
- Downloads are automatically saved in folders with their name after information.
- They are available as * .Cab files that you can open using some reliable depressing software such as 7-Zip, WinZip, or WinRAR.
- After opening and exporting the file, you will have a msi * file. Double click on it and the installation will begin.
