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Location of Windows 2003 update files

Does anyone know where Windows update files are stored in the filesystem (Windows 2003)? Can I safely remove them?
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Thanks you all! We had a server that suddenly filled up all space on C. I tried to delete as much as possible, but everytime I did this it took only minutes to fill up again. The strange thing was that the hard disk filled up til 20MB, and then suddenly it freed up to 1GB. Then every second about 5MB disk space disappeared. This process kept on repeating.

In the end, after setting the option in Explorer to display hidden system files (not only hidden folders), it turned out there was a windows catalog running (C:\System Volume Information\catalog.wci\0001002C.ci) which caused all this. I've deleted this catalog, and disabled indexing service for the moment.

About the Windows update files, I had already deleted most hidden folders starting with $ in C:\windows. The software-distribution folder had about 300 MB in the download folder.