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Fido: Full ISO Download Script (for Windows retail ISOs)
Fido is a PowerShell script that is primarily designed to be used in Rufus, but that can also be used in standalone fashion, and whose purpose is to automate access to the official Microsoft Windows retail ISO download links.
👀 Description
This script exists because, while Microsoft does make retail ISO download links freely and publicly available (at least for Windows 8 and Windows 10), it only does so after actively forcing users to jump through a lot of unwarranted hoops, that create an exceedingly counterproductive, if not downright unfriendly, consumer experience and that greatly detract from what people really want (direct access to ISO downloads).
As to the reason one might want to download Windows retail ISOs, as opposed to the ISOs that are generated by Microsoft's own Media Creation Tool (MCT), this is because using official retail ISOs is currently the only way to assert with absolute certainty that the OS content has not been altered. Indeed, because there only exists a single master for each of them, Microsoft retail ISOs are the only ones you can obtain an official SHA-1 for (from MSDN, if you have access to it, or from sites such as this one) allowing you to be 100% sure that the image you are using has not been corrupted and is safe to use.
💡 How it works
The script basically performs the same operation as one might perform when visiting either of the following URLs (that is, provided that you have also changed your User-Agent browser string, since, when they detect that you are using a version of Windows that is the same as the one you are trying to download, the Microsoft web servers at these addresses redirect you away from the pages that allow you to download retail ISOs):
https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/Windows8ISO
https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/Windows10ISO
After visiting those with a full browser (Internet Explorer, running through the Invoke-WebRequest PowerShell Cmdlet), to confirm that they are accessible, the script then queries the web API from the Microsoft servers to first request the language selection available for the version of Windows selected by the user, and then request the actual download links for all the architectures available for that specific combination of version + language.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://github.com/pbatard/Fido
#Fido #script #PowerShell #Rufus #Windows #download #ISO #retail
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Fido is a PowerShell script that is primarily designed to be used in Rufus, but that can also be used in standalone fashion, and whose purpose is to automate access to the official Microsoft Windows retail ISO download links.
👀 Description
This script exists because, while Microsoft does make retail ISO download links freely and publicly available (at least for Windows 8 and Windows 10), it only does so after actively forcing users to jump through a lot of unwarranted hoops, that create an exceedingly counterproductive, if not downright unfriendly, consumer experience and that greatly detract from what people really want (direct access to ISO downloads).
As to the reason one might want to download Windows retail ISOs, as opposed to the ISOs that are generated by Microsoft's own Media Creation Tool (MCT), this is because using official retail ISOs is currently the only way to assert with absolute certainty that the OS content has not been altered. Indeed, because there only exists a single master for each of them, Microsoft retail ISOs are the only ones you can obtain an official SHA-1 for (from MSDN, if you have access to it, or from sites such as this one) allowing you to be 100% sure that the image you are using has not been corrupted and is safe to use.
💡 How it works
The script basically performs the same operation as one might perform when visiting either of the following URLs (that is, provided that you have also changed your User-Agent browser string, since, when they detect that you are using a version of Windows that is the same as the one you are trying to download, the Microsoft web servers at these addresses redirect you away from the pages that allow you to download retail ISOs):
https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/Windows8ISO
https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/Windows10ISO
After visiting those with a full browser (Internet Explorer, running through the Invoke-WebRequest PowerShell Cmdlet), to confirm that they are accessible, the script then queries the web API from the Microsoft servers to first request the language selection available for the version of Windows selected by the user, and then request the actual download links for all the architectures available for that specific combination of version + language.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://github.com/pbatard/Fido
#Fido #script #PowerShell #Rufus #Windows #download #ISO #retail
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