Download Windows 10/11 ESD

[Drone]

I guess they want to weed out all the builds before (August 2) Anniversary Update

 

[Mussels]

dont forget about this tool, you can still get ISO links through it

https://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microsoft/67-microsoft-windows-iso-download-tool

 

[Drone]

Microsoft Director of Sales Excellence - Eric Ligman is giving away tons of free MS books

Including: Windows 10, Office 365, Office 2016, Power BI, Azure, Windows 8.1, Office 2013, SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2013, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell, Exchange Server, System Center, Cloud, SQL Server and more.

 

[Drone]

Cumulative Update (July 14) for Windows 10 version 1511

This package contains all previously released fixes. There are no prerequisites for installing this update. You may be prompted to restart the computer after you apply this update.

Brings system to 10586.499

KB3172988 x64 (905 MB) lolwut 905 MB?!

KB3172988 x86 (503 MB)

 

[Jetster]

I'm confused

10240
10586
Are versions right? Why an update to 10240? Isn't 10586 an newer version? Why the refresh on the first post?

 

[Mussels]

each build has two numbers, for some stupid reason.

 

[Solaris17]

Microsoft Director of Sales Excellence - Eric Ligman is giving away tons of free MS books

Including: Windows 10, Office 365, Office 2016, Power BI, Azure, Windows 8.1, Office 2013, SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2013, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell, Exchange Server, System Center, Cloud, SQL Server and more.

Sorry I only check this thread once in awhile. Here you dudes go.

$url = "http://www.mssmallbiz.com/ericligman/Key_Shorts/MSFTFreeEbooks.txt"
$output = "$home\Desktop\MSFTFreeEbooks.txt"

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -OutFile $output

New-Item -ItemType directory -Path "$home\Desktop\books"

$books = Get-Content "$home\desktop\MSFTFreeEbooks.txt"
$DestinationFolder = "$home\Desktop\books"

Foreach($book in $books){
    $response = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $book
    $filename = [System.IO.Path]::GetFileName($response.BaseResponse.ResponseUri.LocalPath)
    $filepath = [System.IO.Path]::Combine($DestinationFolder, $filename)
    try
    {
        $filestream = [System.IO.File]::Create($filepath)
        $response.RawContentStream.WriteTo($filestream)
        $filestream.Close()
    }
    finally
    {
        if ($filestream)
        {
            $filestream.Dispose();
        }
    }
}

Remove-Item -Path "$home\desktop\MSFTFreeEbooks.txt" -Force

The DL is about 4GB and pulls from the entire text entry list located here.

http://www.mssmallbiz.com/ericligman/Key_Shorts/MSFTFreeEbooks.txt

which he posted a link too here.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ms...oks-and-resources-in-my-free-ebooks-giveaway/

the script is encoded above so you can see it for those not familiar with ISE. To run it you can just load it in ISE or right click and open in PowerShell.

 

[Jetster]

Also I DL the April 26, 2016 in the first post and its this(en_windows_10_education_10586_x64_dvd) My W7 key does not work with Educational versions

 

[Solaris17]

Also I DL the April 26, 2016 in the first post and its this(en_windows_10_education_10586_x64_dvd) My W7 key does not work with Educational versions

No unfortunately and it wont.

I do have a lit though of the versions.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12435/windows-10-upgrade-faq

look under "What edition of Windows will I get as part of the free upgrade?"

 

[Jetster]

No unfortunately and it wont.

I do have a lit though of the versions.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12435/windows-10-upgrade-faq

look under "What edition of Windows will I get as part of the free upgrade?"

I had a copy I downloaded a few months ago. I just saw the later version but it was the educational one. It didn't say it was

 

[Drone]

Also I DL the April 26, 2016 in the first post and its this(en_windows_10_education_10586_x64_dvd) My W7 key does not work with Educational versions

Thanks, I changed educational link to multi (pro+home).

But anywho Windows 10 1607 aka 14393 aka RS1 aka Anniversary Update (August 2, 2016) is here!

Edit: after you do a clean install of Anniversary Update it will download cumulative update KB3176929 which will bring system to 14393.10

KB3176929 CU x86

KB3176929 CU x64

 

[Drone]

I've added Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) 'client combined single language' ESDs and decryptor to the op.

Client Combined Single Language includes:
Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Home Single Language, Windows 10 Education

 

[jsfitz54]

Why does W10 need a clean install every time? Why are personal settings not retained?

Please, no responses that cause debate, just want to know why.

I have referred to this thread many times and want to say, Thank You.

 

[Drone]

Why does W10 need a clean install every time? Why are personal settings not retained?

Please, no responses that cause debate, just want to know why.

I have referred to this thread many times and want to say, Thank You.

Yup, unfortunately upgrade process is messy. All your programs and documents will be there but all the services and tweaks you turned off/on will be reset, lots of redundant registry keys, logs, hidden files/folders will appear here and there. Plus, those giant windows.old and other folders that occupy gigabytes of memory which you have to clean afterwards. Real pain in the ass for ssd users but it's inevitable.

 

[Ahhzz]

Why does W10 need a clean install every time? Why are personal settings not retained?

Please, no responses that cause debate, just want to know why.

I have referred to this thread many times and want to say, Thank You.

One of my clients asked why their Win 10 upgrade was so buggy, and why I wanted to replace with a fresh load. In trying to explain, I realized that we had not really seen any "Upgrade" issues since Windows XP era (2002). Think about it.

Windows 3.1 to 95 really didn't happen much, and the two OSes were different enough that people just did a fresh load.

From 95 to 98, an upgrade was a mess. Any IT worth his salt knew to do a fresh load.

No one tried to migrate people to Windows ME intentionally. Windows 2000 was really only seen in a corporate environment, and IT guys knew to do a fresh load.

When XP hit, many people tried "upgrades", but it caused so much issue that they almost always went back for a clean slate, even more so after SP2 hit. There was really no point. Programs didn't migrate with it: why even bother?

Vista was like ME, and no one really pushed their clients to purchase an Upgrade version to migrate. By the time Win7 hit, people either bought new machines with Win7 on them already, or sat tight with their XP installs, and as a VAR, we could still get WinXP almost a year after 7's release.

Once 8 hit, again, no one recommended their clients migrate that way. Some purchased PCs with it already installed, but we had no problem (and still really don't, even now), getting a PC with Windows 7 Pro, so we just got Win7 for them, and ignored 8 in a business environment.

Win 10 changes everything. It's a Free Upgrade, which means that the businesses don't have to justify purchasing the software to upgrade, and since M$ did their shady "Shoot me now or Shoot me later" upgrade (and you wonder why "millions have already moved to Wonderful Windows 10!!), a lot of IT people were left out of the loop, and upgrades "just happened".

It's not a case of "Why does Windows 10 not do a good in-place upgrade?". The point is that Windows has never done a good job of an in-place upgrade: so many people have not really seen (or don't remember) what happens to an OS when you try to "upgrade". Windows 10 is just bringing the nightmare back to the front again.

 

[RejZoR]

Can someone direct me at a compiled ISO for Redstone release so I can save it in case I need to reinstall. Don't like the ESD "decrypted" version because it's behaving strange.

 

[Drone]

ESD decrypted versions work just fine.

MS just adores to delete iso links from their servers but anyway ....

dead links

 

[RejZoR]

What exactly is the difference between international and US English? I think I had international once and it seemed to be defaulting to British english. Is that it? I kinda prefer US spelling of things

 

[silentbogo]

What exactly is the difference between international and US English? I think I had international once and it seemed to be defaulting to British english. Is that it? I kinda prefer US spelling of things

No difference except default display language and a small bundle of pre-installed locales, I guess...
Either way - you can always install any MUI from locale settings menu. That's one of the things I really like about W10.

 

[Mussels]

i think i had issues upgrading from one language to another - so pick one and stick with it (for me, international makes sense)

 

[Drone]

I agree with @Mussels I had issues too. When you change language some stuff in services and group policy gets messed up and left untranslated.

 

[RejZoR]

It's so annoying you can't have just keyboard set to your language and EVERYTHING else to english. Stupid thing keeps on translating shit to my language and it looks so stupid. Entire OS in English and all the Metro apps are in Slovene. This pisses me off so hard.
If I force English US and slovenian keyboard, then I'm getting the stupid language selection bar in taskbar all the frigging time and that pisses me off even more.

 

[Shou Miko]

What exactly is the difference between international and US English? I think I had international once and it seemed to be defaulting to British english. Is that it? I kinda prefer US spelling of things

US = US English
International = British English

Anything more?

 

[Drone]

Patch Tuesday for old W10 builds:

************************

for 1511 (build 10586) users:

KB3176493

x86 502 MB
x64 916 MB


***********************

for 1507 (build 10240) users:

KB3176492

x86 366 MB
x64 776 MB

 

[Drone]

duh and today they released cu KB3176931 for 1607 which brings system build number to 14393.67

x86 67.9 MB
x64 117 MB