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You can get the ISO's directly from MSFT with the downloader here - Microsoft Windows and Office ISO Download Tool
For those who have W7 keys but not the iso's - LEGAL Ms versions
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There still is an official MCT for Windows 7, https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/home Only problem is it asks for a key for verification, and only accepts Retail keys. It even rejects my TechNet and MSDN keys. I have yet to ever get it to work. The HeiDoc links could very well be these ISO's? Or the links it would give you if you could get it to work. I've asked why it wants a key when the other two MCT's don't, on the private Microsoft Yammer group and it just fell on deaf ears. The only response I got was that, "that's the way its supposed to work".
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Hi there
these download a .img type file --OK using vmware to load these as a virtual ISO works --not sure either if renaming them to .iso would fix anything -- strange that these though are in .img format rather than .iso or should one sane as xxx.iso when saving rather than use the default name.
Cheers
jimbo
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You can get 8.1 ISO's here, https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/home > https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/soft...nload/windows8
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Windows 8.0 was so thoroughly deprecated, it was expunged from the Internet in something like a Stalinist purge, so that a copy is as rare as a statue of Saddam Hussein in the White House today. :)
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Hi there
OT - but if I use torrents then I'll always use a Linux system and DELUGE as the bit torrent client. Torrent files unless they come from 100% LEGAL and reliable sources such as say RHEL (Red Hat) official mirrors etc should always be presented as magnet links rather than an actual torrent file. Linux systems are also much less likely to get infected with viruses or malware -- especially if you almost never use sudo or root (su).
Trouble with most Windows systems - especially home users that they are always installed with the main user being the administrator so everything is possible. Windows can be locked down but it takes quite a lot of work and it's almost impossible to get a convenient option that is around 95% OK most of the time while still protecting against the most malevolent threats. People at home don't usually have the time, inclinations and often the knowledge to do this --that's why people are PAID to perform this task in I.T administration depts. in businesses of any size.
Deluge has absolutely ZERO ads in it or any Nags. To use magnet link simply when loading the torrent say load from URL.
-- Utorrent on windows used to be good but it's now become too bloated and full not so much of ads but something equally as irritating -"Nagware" -- exhorting you to "go pro" i.e PAY.
Cheers
jimbo
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To the second comment about third party sources, especially bit torrent.
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