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EuroNutellaMan ,

Just use quickemu, it will download the ISO and setup the VM for you in less than 10 minutes. If it doesn’t download the ISO you can get it from M$'s website.

Also if you don’t wanna pay and don’t absolutely need windows just use any one of the many free Linux distros honestly.

TCB13 ,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

You don’t download pirated copies for your your safety.

Download official ISOs from massgrave.dev (preferably the business editions and install Enterprise,… or Pro) and then use the provided activator on the same website.

Side note: Enterprise is the same as Pro without some telemetry / garbage by default or that can be further disabled, so you can safely use it.

Kazumara , (edited )

The easy way to get a clean copy is to download it directly from Microsoft. You can generate a valid download link using the follwing website (just make sure the domain of the generated link points to Microsoft and nothing bad can happen)

\https://tb.rg-adguard.net/public.php

As for the activation, I have found that the My Digital Life Forums have good activators available usually:

…mydigitallife.net/…/kms-and-other-tools.51/

Edit: Sorry it looks like TechBench is dead, but this site seems to work the same way:

massgrave.dev/msdl/

nothacking ,

www.linuxmint.com/download.php /s, but you can use the offical version for playing games and stuff without paying, and there are easy ways to get around the limitations (remove watermark, change desktop background, etc).

veloute ,

mint is garbage

dangblingus ,

You don’t have to download pirated Windows. Microsoft offers free versions of Windows (at least 10, not sure about other versions) on their website for making a bootable usb.

Hiro8811 ,

Ghostspectre but it’s a debloated version

nyakojiru ,
@nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Even if I hate to pay for it, the best safe solution get a cheap windows 7 or 10 key and if you want upgrade it. It’s free. Pirating something like an os is high risk I won’t do it.

Appoxo ,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Win7 keys are done for.
Win10 keys are the only hope.

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Haitch tea tea pea colon slash slash double you double you double you dot microsoft dot com

Lemmchen ,

www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11

www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10

mister_newbie ,

Just download it from MS directly and use it unactivated (select “I don’t have a key” when prompted). Why anyone would f- around with their OS, of all things…

If you care to activate, it’s trivial to get a grey key or to find an activation script (though I think they patched out the script – even though MS Support themselves used it)

cuntonabike ,

Or just use ohook

massgrave.dev/ohook.html

Used this about 4 times in the past month alone lol

hurtn ,

This is the way

CraigeryTheKid ,

That looks like for Office? Not Windows?

cuntonabike ,

It’s both

BearOfaTime ,

There’s also Tiny10/Tiny11 on Archive.org.

I use it in VM’s for testing.

CrayonRosary ,

How can you ever trust something like that?

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

That’s why they’re using a VM.

kylian0087 ,

Google massgravel

HeavyRaptor ,

I used to just buy a key from Kinguin or similar. It’s usually around 2-3 usd for an OEM key (only usable on 1 computer) and you can pay with PayPal. Never had issues yet.

Next time around I might try this activation script that was mentioned here though.

stom ,
@stom@lemmy.world avatar

I was using TechBench to download ISO’s from MS without having to change my useragent.

Sadly it looks like the project has been retired in favour of their Files project, but trawling through that to find entries that actually have download links is a royal pain in the ass.

If anyone has a tip on easily finding the latest download for each Windows version then I’d love to hear it.

Edit: Massgrave seems to be current best option: massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media.html

jaschen ,

Just download Tiny11. It removes all the bloat and just loads the basic.

iturnedintoanewt ,
@iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee avatar

These days the best way is to download the official ISO, install without key, open powershell with admin rights and run the massgrave one-liner script with a quick copy/paste.

squid_slime ,
@squid_slime@lemmy.world avatar

What if someone wants to download ltsc?

Windows long term service (not sure what the c means)

Lojcs ,

Channel?
Code?

squid_slime ,
@squid_slime@lemmy.world avatar

Yes channel, that’s the one

SchizoDenji ,

You can get an iso for that from Microsoft or internet archive and follow the same steps.

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