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In case you want to download genuine Windows ISOs you can use https://tb.rg-adguard.net https://tb.rg-adguard.net. It's a simple website that uses some sort of

In case you want to download genuine Windows ISOs you can use https://tb.rg-adguard.net https://tb.rg-adguard.net. It's a simple website that uses some sort of MS API to generate download links (directly from Microsoft servers). AFAIK MS does not publish checksums of their ISOs anymore, which means you have to rely on trusted sources to compare hashes, but at least it is a download directly from MS servers instread of some random torrent.

COMMENT___ 4y ago
This site looks like some sketchy Russian website with patched (pirated) Windows ISOs. While it may use MS API to generate download links, it still looks like some warez storage. I would never install any Windows versions downloaded from it.
- xurukefi 4y ago
  Not sure if I'm missing the irony here.
  - COMMENT___ 4y ago
    No irony here. Just first impression. Rambler TOP 100? MyNickName.com? WTF is that? I would never trust an admin who puts such shit on his website.
    - mananaysiempre 4y ago
      Rambler was a Russian-language search engine (as well as portal and directory) back when Yandex hadn’t yet steamrollered everybody else and Google, being incapable of understanding nouns can have more than a couple of forms, was a non-starter. They were irrelevant by 2010 and gave up on mantaining their own index even earlier, I think. Rambler TOP 100, then, is a website popularity rating from back when voluntarily placing such things on your pages using was cool and you showed them off using these buttons. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it on an English-language page (that wasn’t an obvious translation) before. Apparently it still survives in some form, though I’ve no idea who is in charge of it now. That is to say, I have no idea why anyone would include that on their pages in this day and age, yet it is hardly nefarious. (Not that you’re supposed to know that, but if you publicly claim it is people will naturally expect you to have done some research beforehand.)
helloooooooo 4y ago
Yeah I wouldn’t trust that site. Rather, use UUPDump. It is open source, and uses the Windows update process where you can generate the ISOs yourself on your machine.
- encryptluks2 4y ago
  It creates links to download directly from Microsoft. I've never had an issue relying on the ISO hashes from msdn.rg-adguard.net either. I just wish Microsoft didn't hide their updated monthly ISO's behind a MSDN subscription.
  - SteveMoody73 4y ago
    I have a MSDN subscription and one of my colleges wanted a Japanese Windows 10 ISO to track down a particular bug. While I had to login to get the link to the ISO, once I had that link there doesn't seem to be any requirements to log in again. All the installs are in trial mode unless you get a key, which does require MSDN, but it would be nice if MS just had a convenient place to find these other than people using some 3rd party service. At least it would give people confidence that it's a genuine download and not been tampered with at all.
    - encryptluks2 4y ago
      The Windows installers are not activated. You need either an OEM key in your firmware, a retail key or a volume activation server.
      - seanp2k2 4y ago
        And https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts can help with that.
        encryptluks2 4y ago
        I wouldn't recommend using random public activation servers and hundreds if not thousands of lines of batch scripts. slmgr.vbs and ospp.vbs are your friend.
Retr0id 4y ago
Did a quick test and downloaded a random ISO, can confirm that it pulled from https://software.download.prss.microsoft.com/dbazure/[...]
bhedgeoser 4y ago
If someone can spoof an ISO url, they can also spoof the page/file that contains the ISO hash.
HeckFeck 4y ago
> AFAIK MS does not publish checksums of their ISOs anymore Why no more? I'm sure they could script it as part of their build process. Even PowerShell is bound to have an inbuilt get-md5 or get-sha function.
- fuzzy2 4y ago
  There is no technical reason. Previously, everyone could browse the MSDN (or whatever it’s called these days) catalog and view the checksums listed there. Only downloading required a subscription. This has changed. Now, browsing the catalog also requires a subscription.
giancarlostoro 4y ago
Till Microsoft decides to block their servers.
- xurukefi 4y ago
  That's what I thought ... 8 years ago when I started using this website.
  - giancarlostoro 4y ago
    The more attention it gets, the more likely it is to happen, of course, this site is not yet quite as popular as Rufus is. I'm guessing somebody noticed hikes due to Rufus in their logs.
k8sToGo 4y ago
I can download Windows 11 iso from here:https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11 https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11 even has a checksum.
- colpabar 4y ago
  I think most people who are looking for windows ISOs are doing so to avoid win11.
  - mikewhy 4y ago
    https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10 https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10
  - bmn__ 4y ago
    Windows 7, Windows 8 https://developer.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ https://developer.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/
ThatMedicIsASpy 4y ago
Go to the official windows download page without a windows useragent and you get the iso instead of the crappy download tool.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  > without a windows useragent And amusingly this isn't an easy task in Firefox.
  - m3adow 4y ago
    Iirc there are add-ons for it, I'd calllp that easy. Also there's the about:config way but I guess this may be considered difficult.
    - justsomehnguy 4y ago
      > Also there's the about:config way This is only for responsive design mode in which FF mimics iPhone (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/604.1.38 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0 Mobile/15A372 Safari/604.1) There is no straight way to just change the useragent like I could do with IE10 *grin*
    - mananaysiempre 4y ago
      Opera back in and before the Presto days just had a switcher in the menu. (As well as a “cached images only” toggle, which was why I used it in the first place, but I digress.)
MRtecno98 4y ago
> AFAIK MS does not publish checksums of their ISOs anymore I don't know where you got that information, but if i go to the Windows 11 download page[0] right below the download button there's a "Verify your download" section with all checksums for all ISOs in all languages [0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows11 https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows11

COMMENT___ 4y ago

This site looks like some sketchy Russian website with patched (pirated) Windows ISOs. While it may use MS API to generate download links, it still looks like some warez storage. I would never install any Windows versions downloaded from it.

xurukefi 4y ago
Not sure if I'm missing the irony here.
- COMMENT___ 4y ago
  No irony here. Just first impression. Rambler TOP 100? MyNickName.com? WTF is that? I would never trust an admin who puts such shit on his website.
  - mananaysiempre 4y ago
    Rambler was a Russian-language search engine (as well as portal and directory) back when Yandex hadn’t yet steamrollered everybody else and Google, being incapable of understanding nouns can have more than a couple of forms, was a non-starter. They were irrelevant by 2010 and gave up on mantaining their own index even earlier, I think. Rambler TOP 100, then, is a website popularity rating from back when voluntarily placing such things on your pages using was cool and you showed them off using these buttons. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it on an English-language page (that wasn’t an obvious translation) before. Apparently it still survives in some form, though I’ve no idea who is in charge of it now. That is to say, I have no idea why anyone would include that on their pages in this day and age, yet it is hardly nefarious. (Not that you’re supposed to know that, but if you publicly claim it is people will naturally expect you to have done some research beforehand.)

helloooooooo 4y ago

Yeah I wouldn’t trust that site. Rather, use UUPDump. It is open source, and uses the Windows update process where you can generate the ISOs yourself on your machine.

encryptluks2 4y ago
It creates links to download directly from Microsoft. I've never had an issue relying on the ISO hashes from msdn.rg-adguard.net either. I just wish Microsoft didn't hide their updated monthly ISO's behind a MSDN subscription.
- SteveMoody73 4y ago
  I have a MSDN subscription and one of my colleges wanted a Japanese Windows 10 ISO to track down a particular bug. While I had to login to get the link to the ISO, once I had that link there doesn't seem to be any requirements to log in again. All the installs are in trial mode unless you get a key, which does require MSDN, but it would be nice if MS just had a convenient place to find these other than people using some 3rd party service. At least it would give people confidence that it's a genuine download and not been tampered with at all.
  - encryptluks2 4y ago
    The Windows installers are not activated. You need either an OEM key in your firmware, a retail key or a volume activation server.
    - seanp2k2 4y ago
      And https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts can help with that.
      - encryptluks2 4y ago
        I wouldn't recommend using random public activation servers and hundreds if not thousands of lines of batch scripts. slmgr.vbs and ospp.vbs are your friend.

Retr0id 4y ago

Did a quick test and downloaded a random ISO, can confirm that it pulled from https://software.download.prss.microsoft.com/dbazure/[...]

bhedgeoser 4y ago

If someone can spoof an ISO url, they can also spoof the page/file that contains the ISO hash.

HeckFeck 4y ago

> AFAIK MS does not publish checksums of their ISOs anymore Why no more? I'm sure they could script it as part of their build process. Even PowerShell is bound to have an inbuilt get-md5 or get-sha function.

fuzzy2 4y ago
There is no technical reason. Previously, everyone could browse the MSDN (or whatever it’s called these days) catalog and view the checksums listed there. Only downloading required a subscription. This has changed. Now, browsing the catalog also requires a subscription.

giancarlostoro 4y ago

Till Microsoft decides to block their servers.

xurukefi 4y ago
That's what I thought ... 8 years ago when I started using this website.
- giancarlostoro 4y ago
  The more attention it gets, the more likely it is to happen, of course, this site is not yet quite as popular as Rufus is. I'm guessing somebody noticed hikes due to Rufus in their logs.

k8sToGo 4y ago

I can download Windows 11 iso from here:https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11 https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11 even has a checksum.

colpabar 4y ago
I think most people who are looking for windows ISOs are doing so to avoid win11.
- mikewhy 4y ago
  https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10 https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10
- bmn__ 4y ago
  Windows 7, Windows 8 https://developer.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ https://developer.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

ThatMedicIsASpy 4y ago

Go to the official windows download page without a windows useragent and you get the iso instead of the crappy download tool.

justsomehnguy 4y ago
> without a windows useragent And amusingly this isn't an easy task in Firefox.
- m3adow 4y ago
  Iirc there are add-ons for it, I'd calllp that easy. Also there's the about:config way but I guess this may be considered difficult.
  - justsomehnguy 4y ago
    > Also there's the about:config way This is only for responsive design mode in which FF mimics iPhone (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/604.1.38 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0 Mobile/15A372 Safari/604.1) There is no straight way to just change the useragent like I could do with IE10 *grin*
  - mananaysiempre 4y ago
    Opera back in and before the Presto days just had a switcher in the menu. (As well as a “cached images only” toggle, which was why I used it in the first place, but I digress.)

MRtecno98 4y ago

> AFAIK MS does not publish checksums of their ISOs anymore I don't know where you got that information, but if i go to the Windows 11 download page[0] right below the download button there's a "Verify your download" section with all checksums for all ISOs in all languages [0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows11 https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows11