I strongly recommend building your own offline update archive if you think you need itĪs of 2017, WSUS offline update v9.21 can't seem to download XP patches. As far as we know, the 32-bit ISO image of XP is the only compatible version that can be put on a bootable flash drive (success for XP 64-bit was limited). Of course, this link is likely to die at some point, and I have no XP boxen to test it from. It also has lovely logging, and lists of file locations and it lists as the location for windows XP SP3. This is the best option since it should get your system as patched up as possible, and lets you do so even if XP patches are no longer hosted if you already downloaded them.
This should get your XP box completely up to date, and as of mid december 2016 (when I'm posting it), it seems to update still. Since its downloading the updates directly from MS, and gets the full/offline installers and automatically applies them, these are the official updates and you don't need to rely on windows update for at least the initial update.
As mentioned earlier, XP runs older 32-bit Windows programs quite. You need version 9.21 or older as its the last version that supported XP. You can also have Windows Update download only the pieces of SP2 that your computer. I have an old Sony VAIO laptop in which I installed it's original factory OS (with its restore discs) which is Windows Media Center Edition SP2 32-bit.
I use an archive I built from an outdated version of WSUS offline update - in case I need to stand up a windows XP system.
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