Paul wrote:
PeterC wrote:
This article has no details of any changes - are the ISOs updates or just
another source?
https://news.softpedia.com/news/new-...d-524135.shtml


Links to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/home
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...nload/windows7

It's not new.

It requires a license key to be typed in, to get your ISO.

If you own a Dell, an HP, an Acer, your COA key will be
no good, and will be rejected. (The manufacturer is supposed
to support those people, not Microsoft.)

That leaves retail purchased boxed software. And you already
have the DVD from the box or sleeve for that.

The intention is to reduce the set of users who qualify.

So nothing has changed.

People who need the media, are Dell/HP/Acer users, who
had a disk failure, lost their Recovery partition, and
the machine is old enough, the manufacturer no longer
carries physical disc packages for the hardware boxes.

You can use Heidoc downloader tool at that point, as it
bypasses the key check done on the Microsoft site, and
gets the download ISO URL from a Techbench folder.

https://www.heidoc.net/joomla/techno...-download-tool


Getting the Win7 ISO download from Techbench is now hard
to do. It was easy earlier on, and that tool had no
problem getting a download link. They had to change
methods, and the new method is "rate limited" on
link generation for Win7 downloads. Only "waste" a
Win7 generation cycle, if you really need media.

If you ask the Heidoc tool to generate a Win10 ISO URL,
that is considered "easy", and doesn't burn valuable
resources or deprive someone else of the chance to
recover their machine.

All the download ISOs come straight from Microsoft, and
the Heidoc tool just generates a URL to fetch it with.
The folders created on the Microsoft server, by the
Microsoft server, are only valid for 24 hours, then
the Microsoft server removes them. This prevents people
from posting a "good URL" to the Microsoft site, so
others can download the same ISO you got. Think of the
Microsoft scheme as a "URL scrambler", one which
normally requires a retail license key to gain access.

Â*Â* Paul

You can get one from the torrents, no product key necessary. You can
even get Windows XP:

https://torrentz2.eu/search?f=window...sional+x64+iso