In message , Paul
writes:
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Windows 7. Heidoc has Retail Windows 7.

https://www.heidoc.net/joomla/techno.../67-microsoft-
windows-iso-download-tool
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Select Windows 7, go through the selection process.

Then, use the "Copy link for 64 bit" on the right.

Paste the URL into your web browser, and download the file
from Microsoft. The URL should be a Microsoft URL.

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THere's only one problem. Windows 7 is nearing end of download life.

Heidoc can barely make URLS any more, and you can see why here.

https://www.wincert.net/forum/topic/...0-monthly-down
load-days-starting-october-1-experimental/

[Maybe _you_ can - it goes a bit over my head (-:!]

When I tested just now, the Heidoc tool had no URLs to offer.

When I look, and select "Windows 7", it comes up with a drop-down
heading "Select edition", which has only one entry in it: "Currently
unavailable". Is that what you mean?

If, however, I select "Window 7 (August 2018)", it lets me select
edition and language.

I already have a file I downloaded 2019-1-15, called
Win7_HomePrem_SP1_English_COEM_x32.iso, size 2,564,476,928 bytes (2.38
GB, 2,504,372 KB).

I have several separate questions:

Q1. Is that file I have likely to be the latest (7 Home Premium 32 bit,
which is what I have and would want) as of the date I downloaded it, or
will it date from when SP1 came out?

Q2. If I ever use it, will the system created then do (if I let it) a
mammoth download of all the upgrades since 2019-1-15 (or since SP1 came
out depending on the answer to Q1)?

Q3. I know there will be no new upgrades to W7 after sometime in
January. (Possibly except for corporate customers paying through the
nose for them.) But, as happened (is still?) with XP, do we believe the
update server will still interact with W7 systems that don't have
updates _prior_ to the cutoff date, and still supply those updates to
those systems?

Q4. Is the
7601.24214.180801-1700.win7sp1_ldr_escrow_CLIENT_HOMEPREMIUM_x86FRE_ en-us
..iso file that comes, as of now, from selecting the "Window 7 (August
2018)" button on Heidoc of any relevance to anything? It is
4,095,453,184 bytes (3.81 GB, 3,999,466 KB) - i. e. about 4G, whereas
the one I downloaded 2019-1-15 is about 2.5G - the difference seems a
lot more than 7 months' worth of updates, so I presume there is some
other difference (one is OEM or something?).

Q5. Would Heidoc be where I'd download a W10HP-32 .iso to play with to
get a "digital entitlement" to W10? If so, which one - there seem to be
23, or if I ignore the China, N version, and Education ones, and the
Enterprise one, there seem to be 6 to choose from, differing mainly by
date (from September 2017 up to May 2019. Would I just go for the
latest, or (I think you've mentioned recently) won't that fit on a
single-layer DVD - if so, which one will?

(Sorry, Q5 is really rather a lot of questions, isn't it.)
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