Microsoft with the release of Windows 8 brought some pre-installed apps that provide basic functions, όπως η ανάγνωση ειδήσεων, το άνοιγμα e-mail ή τη διαχείριση φωτογραφιών.
Η company continues to add more apps with each major release of the operating system, and now there are about 20 different core apps installed on the operating system since its very first release.movement.
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 computers without an Internet connection. System administrators who need to update multiple systems may also want to download them only once so 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 Catalog extension. Proceed with installation.
- Once that is done, enter the KB number in the search of the second web page and do click on the search button.
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- 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 to folders with their name after updating.
- 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.
