Get a CURRENT Installation disk Windows 7

Can we have an installation disc Windows 7 updated 'in progress' acquire that contains all Windows updates?

We are going to re - format a number of computers and to install a fresh OS. I think if an installation disc has been used who had already more or all updates of Windows had installation in a much more efficient way, best use of hard disk space. We did an installation just the other day, and there were several 100 windows updates that were to be downloaded and installed. An analysis of the hard drive eventually with the CMD line "DEFRAG C:/a/u/v showed several fragments of files 1000 with a number very small average free space."

Can we acquire such an OS install disc?

Maybe this isn't the secret to install the operating system with optimal use of hard drive... or me as a good method might help do this.

I know that native defrag command will not move fragments of size larger than 64 MB... is there another way to sqeeze get an optimal installation of the OS?

Start here:

http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/preparing-an-image-using-Sysprep-and-ImageX.aspx

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