How and where to find ISOs for old versions of Windows 10

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You’ll find lots of torrents and pirate download sites, but I still strongly recommend against using them (yes, even if you check the hashes). Instead
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SingBlueSilver, Cascadian, CyGuy, Noel Carboni, AlexEiffel, Elly, columbia2011

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http://windowsiso.net/ provides download links from microsoft.com for all previous Windows versions

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columbia2011, CyGuy, anita.yk, RetiredGeek, dph853

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all from that site except Windows 7.

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EP wrote:

all from that site except Windows 7.

Slightly disappointing that they didn’t have links to ISOs for XP or Vista or 8.0, from any source.

Not that I have much need for any of the above, while any version of Windows 10 is of sub-zero interest here, which is why this is only “slightly” disappointing.

 

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windowsiso
net

Noticed nothing but hostile code and attack redirects.

Can’t verify ISO because no (working) download was provided, plus they were too busy attacking me. Not something I would want to go through to get an ISO…

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“Information wants to be free.” Requiring a login to a corporate site to read an article serves the corporate interests not those looking for information. Thanks for the link, but I do not subscribe to sites to read a single linked article.

You and I both know what happens to that email address (even if it is a onetime use fake address – why should I have to jump through hoops when I don’t really care to – my choice, I know).

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https://tb.rg-adguard.net/

all generated are Microsoft’s links

and all three projects isn’t very much copyright-complaint

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abbodi86 wrote:

all generated are Microsoft’s links

Confirmed, though uBlock Origin found it prudent to block 15 requests to show that page, a good number of them from .ru.

-Noel

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@abbodi86 Occasionally on the page if you select the Win10 Version you req. you can avail yourself of the “Refreshed” Images. These come in an .esd format that requires a Decrypter.iso maker.
Its a “Swings & Roundabouts” scenario what ever you save by not installing the bundled updates you lose in Decrypting or more correctly Decompressing the file and making the .iso that’s if time is an issue. Yes there’s Win7 (all Ver’s just remove the ei.cfg from “sources” and remake the .iso) and Win 8.1 threshold 3 (inc the big updates i.e. kb3000850 etc) .iso’s in there as well and as Noel correctly pointed out apparently its from Russia. They all appear good images as far as I can tell if your not lucky enough to have MSDN access. Just use the succession of drop down Menu’s there’s quite a choice.

Even though the .iso’s etc appear to be ok I would reiterate the advice given by Woody please be careful where you get your Windows images from it really is the easiest thing in the World to SYSPREP, Capture an image and create an, apparently, untouched image or .iso from a working Machine and pass it off as Genuine. Its really that simple to install a virus, Malware or any other nasty in there and you wouldn’t know. Chances are even if you did a Virus or Malware check on the image it wouldn’t find it in the Highly Compressed .esd or standard .wim file.

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Very useful stuff, given the way MS are going with W10.

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Be careful and verify your checksums/ hashes for whatever version you choose.

 

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This sha1 lookup tool may prove useful, although not all legitimate isos appear in the database, and it’s only sha1 checksums rather than sha256.  Entering the sha1 of your iso as the search term seems to be the best way to use it.  There are various ways to compute checksums in windows, but you can do worse than to use rufus, which you may already have around.  After an iso  has been selected in the rufus ui, click on the ‘#’ at the bottom of the ui and then md5, sha1 and sha256 checksums will be calculated.  It (hopefully) goes without saying that you should compare a given iso to a checksum obtained from somewhere *other* than where you downloaded the iso

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The below tool supposedly can download the desired ISO installer for any of “available Windows 10 versions”  from MS servers in a legal way.

Windows 10 ISO Download Tool:
https://www.wintools.info/index.php/windows-10-iso-download-tool

Supports Win 7, 8.x & 10. No installation needed, but requires MS Framework.NET v4.x on the host PC.

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