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You can now download Windows 7 and Vista ISO images with all the updates
- WithinReason 9mo agoSecurity updates up to 2026? If I knew this I wouldn't have upgraded to Win11 recently :)
- SpikedCola 9mo agoAnd it downloads at ADSL speeds for the full experience (although Cloudflare in front of the ISO kind of breaks character). https://imgur.com/a/HEjIEVn https://imgur.com/a/HEjIEVn
- argulane 9mo agoFor me the torrent file currently is coming down at 26MB/s
- ranger_danger 9mo agoInfinite captcha loop for me. Not using a VPN/proxy/1.1.1.1/anything like that.
- g947o 9mo ago> Bob Pony, a known enthusiast in the Windows community I am 100% sure this guy has all the good intentions, but from a security perspective, I don't know if it is any better than a completely unpatched Windows 7 ISO.
- gjsman-1000 9mo agoUnpatched Windows 7 is vulnerable to WannaCry/EternalBlue, among other well-known weaknesses.
- selfhoster11 9mo agoNot the point. The point is that nobody who doesn't know him knows whether he can be trusted, and the ISO itself might be prepared on a compromised machine unintentionally. This is very much a supply chain issue.
- antisthenes 9mo agoYou're right. The ISO might have been prepared on a Windows 11 machine.
- honeycrispy 9mo agoI have 24h left on the download. Is anyone who has the file willing to create a torrent to share? I can't click on the twitter link for some reason.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 9mo agoTwitter links via xcancel https://xcancel.com/TheBobPony/status/2014011109406105858 https://xcancel.com/TheBobPony/status/2014011109406105858 https://xcancel.com/TheBobPony/status/2012654119811432608 https://xcancel.com/TheBobPony/status/2012654119811432608 Archive.org link in the first has a torrent link.
- honeycrispy 9mo agoThank you
- alexandrehtrb 9mo agoWaiting for the torrent for the Win7 ISO
- haunter 9mo agoHe posted it on Twitter, not on Archive.org yet https://dl.bobpony.com/windows/unofficial/Win_7_ESU_AiO_x64_MUL_SiMPLiXED_2026_01_17.iso.torrent https://dl.bobpony.com/windows/unofficial/Win_7_ESU_AiO_x64_... The Vista torrent is there already https://archive.org/download/en_windows_vista_sp2_with_update_6003.23713_aio_7in1_x64_v26.01.13_by_adguard/en_windows_vista_sp2_with_update_6003.23713_aio_7in1_x64_v26.01.13_by_adguard_archive.torrent https://archive.org/download/en_windows_vista_sp2_with_updat...
- SpikedCola 9mo agoThank you!
- uyzstvqs 9mo agoThere's also one with just en-US: https://dl.bobpony.com/windows/unofficial/Win_7_ESU_AiO_x64_en-US_SiMPLiXED_2026_01_17.iso.torrent https://dl.bobpony.com/windows/unofficial/Win_7_ESU_AiO_x64_...
- TomMasz 9mo agoWindows 7 was the last really good Windows. MS lost sight of the goal after that.
- honeycrispy 9mo agoNadella lost sight of the goal. Windows 7 was Ballmer.
- skrebbel 9mo agoNadella more than 10x'ed the value of Microsoft. I doubt many MS execs think it was the wrong call to move Windows work to the B team. EDIT: somehow people seem to think I'm defending MS here. I'm not, I'm concurring that MS willingly turned Windows to shit (by moving it to the B team) because they thought they could earn more money elsewhere (and they were right). I don't like it, but I bet the people who got filthy rich over it do.
- ranger_danger 9mo agoI'm assuming they were referring to a non-monetary goal.
- agildehaus 9mo agoThrough Azure, Office, LinkedIn, gaming. Not so much Windows.
- jack_pp 9mo agoThey're fucking up even gaming, that awful gamebar is a pain to disable. Had to do it from powershell and even after it's gone Alt + W won't work in games.
- 306bobby 9mo agoI have a de-bloated win11 build running on my gaming rig, and I still occasionally get the prompt "no program to open link: ms-gamebar://" or something similar
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- majorchord 9mo agoPiracy is allowed on HN now?
- Maken 9mo agoThis still requires you to have a valid Windows 7 or Vista key.
- haunter 9mo agoAlways have been
- CalRobert 9mo agoImagine if we actually discussed hacking!
- Imustaskforhelp 9mo agoGosh the horror!
- blell 9mo agoYes? All news articles contain a link to archive.is as a pinned comment.
- majorchord 9mo agoI don't see one here?
- 1317 9mo agobecause this one isn't paywalled
- WalterGR 9mo agoThere are no pinned comments here. Any archive.is links are posted by random members.
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- merpkz 9mo agoGoing to get this and install it on my old Asus core2duo laptop from circa 2008 - damn thing still is going strong, despite plastic becoming so brittle it has not one single panel left without cracks in it. Currently it has XP on it, but that is missing whole bunch of drivers, like touchpad not working and BIOS AHCI has to be in compatible mode otherwise it will bluescreen. It's going to be nostalgia machine where all the games I used to play back in the days are installed.
- mschuster91 9mo agoFrom a security perspective, I'd really really like not just a pre-baked image, but also instructions on how to replicate that using only files and tools with known-good hashes and/or digital signatures. I too distinctly remember the times I earned my money cleaning up malware, and a few times the root cause was someone using pre-cracked install media from some shady torrent.
- axus 9mo agoI imagine some beefy Microsoft support contracts were required to get all of these updates through this month, with restrictions on redistribution; this isn't Linux! Is there any reason that downloading this is more legal than downloading the latest Hollywood movie?
- mschuster91 9mo ago> Is there any reason that downloading this is more legal than downloading the latest Hollywood movie? Windows ISOs with updates being baked in by third parties (usually computer magazines) has been a thing for well over a decade, ever since MS ceased to do Service Packs. So the pure act of distributing an ISO that hasn't been modified other than applying the official update packages should have enough precedence on the side of distribution being allowed that MS won't be able to do much more than maybe sending a nastygram your way. What you definitely shouldn't do though is pre-crack the ISOs... but I doubt Microsoft even cares about that at this point. Massgrave (a very popular collection of activators for everything from Windows through Office) is hosted on Github. Unlike earlier times, MS doesn't (need to) care about piracy any more, at least not from private users. The real revenue comes from enterprise and government contracts and, most importantly, the cloud.
- axus 9mo agoSo legally a gray area, but ethically and financially not a problem.
- macrocyclo 9mo agoOnly the ones after it got bad
- hiprob 9mo agoWindows Vista technically got to live to see Frutiger Aero come back