I’m looking to test out Windows, but I don’t want to download it without my VPN. I’m trying to use it in a virtual machine with GPU passthrough so I can play all my games. I also obviously don’t want to pay for a copy. TIA!
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.
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.
Are you one of those fabled pure Linux virgins the prophecies speak of? Untainted by Microsofts corruption? Or are you a decadent MacOS slut looking to debase yourself even further?
Why would you download a “pirated” copy? Just download the dumbass Windows official installer from Microsoft and use the link Ardi60 posted. There’s no reason to needlessly get yourself root-kitted because you were downloading an OS that doesn’t even need to be cracked in order to install.
You can actually just use Rufus to create the bootable USB, and it gives you option to disable telemetry and other tracking shit.
I’m not sure if there is a utility for windows as there is for Nvidia drivers (Nvinstall), which automatically downloads the files, removes all the unnecessary shit as per your preferences and creates a new installer.
I’ve used Rufus to create a Windows USB from ISO and I didn’t see any options to remove telemetry, but that was years ago. There may be such options now that it’s known how much they’ve become a spyware company.
For the actual Windows image you can legitmately download ISOs for most every version of Windows from Microsoft directly, you just need your browser’s user agent to say you’re using a non-Windows OS. Since you say you’re looking to “test Windows” it sounds like you’re on another OS, so you should be able to just download an ISO normally.
You download the iso from microsoft.com then if the watermark really bothers you, get massgrave from GitHub (also Microsoft)
Nowadays getting a pre cracked copy of windows is a security issue, also don’t work really good as many times is the enterprise version tied to some online KMS that would 100% go offline someday
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.
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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.
Win7 keys are done for.
Win10 keys are the only hope.
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: https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media.html
microsoft.com
Download the official iso from Microsoft, install it, then run MAS on it if you really want to activate it.
Are you one of those fabled pure Linux virgins the prophecies speak of? Untainted by Microsofts corruption? Or are you a decadent MacOS slut looking to debase yourself even further?
Could you say that last line one more time? Me and my MacBook Air are almost there…
Lmao this is a banger of a comment.
Best comment in this whole thread.
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Why would you download a “pirated” copy? Just download the dumbass Windows official installer from Microsoft and use the link Ardi60 posted. There’s no reason to needlessly get yourself root-kitted because you were downloading an OS that doesn’t even need to be cracked in order to install.
Does wine have problems with some of your games?
wine has problems with a lot of games unfortunately, especially ones with any sort of anticheat.
The games with client side anticheat install a rootkit. I wouldn’t install any if they paid me to, let alone pirate them.
Most games without anticheat work fine. Sometimes there are issues with DRM, but the pirated version with the DRM bypassed will often work.
Windows is free now! No license required. They’re a data company now.
You can actually just use Rufus to create the bootable USB, and it gives you option to disable telemetry and other tracking shit.
I’m not sure if there is a utility for windows as there is for Nvidia drivers (Nvinstall), which automatically downloads the files, removes all the unnecessary shit as per your preferences and creates a new installer.
I’ve used Rufus to create a Windows USB from ISO and I didn’t see any options to remove telemetry, but that was years ago. There may be such options now that it’s known how much they’ve become a spyware company.
For the actual Windows image you can legitmately download ISOs for most every version of Windows from Microsoft directly, you just need your browser’s user agent to say you’re using a non-Windows OS. Since you say you’re looking to “test Windows” it sounds like you’re on another OS, so you should be able to just download an ISO normally.
You download the iso from microsoft.com then if the watermark really bothers you, get massgrave from GitHub (also Microsoft)
Nowadays getting a pre cracked copy of windows is a security issue, also don’t work really good as many times is the enterprise version tied to some online KMS that would 100% go offline someday
Massgrave/Massgravel is not from Microsoft.
i mean hosted on github, bandwidth/compute paid by microsoft
I think they were referring to GitHub
Ghostspectre but it’s a debloated version
Just download Tiny11. It removes all the bloat and just loads the basic.
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.
This is the correct answer. The massgravel github also has a link to a page with official ISOs.
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https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11
https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10