On 5/12/2016 6:55 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
After installing around 50 updates - including all security updates for
IE8 - manually I am now able to access windows update online . The comp is
now downloading 104 security updates from M$ .

The wsoffline tools should have had all of the "required" updates.
Did it NOT install all of them?

Also, you should review each update as MS's idea of "security"/required
may differ from yours!