GNU General Public License version 3.0 or later. Hence the need to provide users with a much easier and less restrictive way to access official retail ISOs.

Is the case for retail ISOs, it is impossible to tell whether an MCT ISO may have been corrupted after generation. Validate with absolute certainty whether any ISO that was generated by the MCT is safe to use. Two MCT ISOs are ever the same (due to MCT always regenerating the ISO content on the fly) it is currently impossible to On the other hand, regardless of the manner in which Microsoft's Media Creation Tool produces its content, because no Validate beforehand if you have the slightest concern about security, does match, bit for bit, the one that Microsoft This, in turn, offers assurance that the content YOU are using to install your OS, which it is indeed critical to Sure that the image you are using has not been corrupted and is safe to use. Have access to it, or from sites such as this one) allowing you to be 100% Master for each of them, Microsoft retail ISOs are the only ones you can obtain an official SHA-1 for (from MSDN, if you Indeed, because there only exists a single Microsoft's own Media Creation Tool (MCT), this is because using official retail ISOs is currently the only way toĪssert with absolute certainty that the OS content has not been altered. To jump through a lot of unwarranted hoops that created an exceedingly counterproductive, if not downright unfriendly,Ĭonsumer experience, that greatly detracted from what people really want (direct access to ISO downloads).Īs to the reason one might want to download Windows retail ISOs, as opposed to the ISOs that are generated by This script exists because, while Microsoft does make retail ISO download links freely and publicly available (at leastįor Windows 8 through Windows 11), up until recent releases, most of these links were only available after forcing users ISO download links as well as provide convenient access to bootable UEFI Shell images.

Fido: A PowerShell download script for Microsoft Windows and UEFI Shell ISOsįido is a PowerShell script that is primarily designed to be used in Rufus, but thatĬan also be used in standalone fashion, and whose purpose is to automate access to the official Microsoft Windows retail

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