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New ISOs for W7 and 8.1
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 -- Peter. The gods will stay away whilst religions hold sway |
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New ISOs for W7 and 8.1
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. Paul |
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New ISOs for W7 and 8.1
On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 07:11:03 -0500, 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 Thanks, Paul. I didn't know if there was another SP with the ISO. I still have the original on the PC and a copy of it on a USB stick. 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. Paul -- Peter. The gods will stay away whilst religions hold sway |
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New ISOs for W7 and 8.1
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 |
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New ISOs for W7 and 8.1
Jack of Diamonds wrote:
.... 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 But how do you know that is a clean copy? -- Quote of the Week: "When the water rises the fish eat the ants, when the water falls the ants eat the fish." --Thai Proverb Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / / /\ /\ \ http://antfarm.ma.cx. Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( ) |
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New ISOs for W7 and 8.1
Ant wrote:
Jack of Diamonds wrote: ... 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 But how do you know that is a clean copy? The MSDN ISOs had checksums listed on the Microsoft web site. I could write a page about the limits of that, but I'm not going to :-) What you can do, is compute the various checksums on the Torrent file you download. Then run the strings of numbers from the checksum through Google, and see if that number is a "popular" number. If you run the checksum string through virustotal, a certain number of "popular" ISOs have their checksum entered manually by the virustotal staff. The Virustotal site has an "upload limit". For official DVDs, they sometimes manually insert the large DVDs into the virustotal collection. But there are no guarantees that every language and SKU of a certain popular title, will be injected that way. Uploading an entire DVD, would exceed the virustotal upload limit. Paul |
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