Never Download Pirated Pre-activated Windows ISOs Again!!!

Faceless Men said:

Or just use Linux

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Faceless Men said:

Or just use Linux

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Faceless Men said:

1) Download official Windows 10/11 ISOs.

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Juhku said:

Yet you say that people should download their Windows .iso from a 3rd party site?
That's just stupid. Why would you ever encourage people to do such a thing?
That's like having someone else handle the private keys of your crypto wallet.

It literally takes 5 minutes to find Windows license keys from the internet.
Just download the Windows iso from the Microsoft's site.

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Faceless Men said:

We are verifying hash for a reason sir. The hash we match tells the integrity of ISO regardless of source. The ones available on torrent sites are modified ones and you can't match hash with official ISOs

Also you can't download Enterprise ISOs unless you have their paid subscription. If you are okay with Home or Pro with loads of bloat, go for it

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Faceless Men said:

If you use a windows operating system without a license, you are most likely downloading ISOs from torrent sites. I have seen a lot of people use Gen2, TeamOS, Rain ISOs. They might be clean, but you can't tell anything as they may be infected with a malware or spyware. I have seen my CPU/RAM usage abnormally high when I was using such ISOs to install Windows 10/11.

I have found a better solution. Here's what to do:
1) Download official Windows 10/11 ISOs. If you want a bloat-free experience I recommend you to download Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 / Windows 11 Enterprise ISO. But you can't just download it from Microsoft website as its only available to MSDN subscription. That's why you should go to following site and download the desired ISO:

Code:

https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media.html

I am downloading Windows 11 Enterprise 23H2 for example:

Code:

en-us_windows_11_business_editions_version_23h2_updated_feb_2024_x64_dvd_a7d49804.iso

2) But just downloading from it doesn't verify integrity of the ISO file. That's why we need to check it's hash. Go to following site and copy/paste your ISO's filename into search box and search. Then copy and paste the SHA512 string into Sublime Text or Notepad++.

3) Go to your Downloads directory/folder and press Shift+Right Click. You will get an option saying Open Powershell/Terminal window Here. Click on it and run the below command to get file hash of ISO we downloaded. Remember to replace en-us_windows_11_business_editions_version_23h2_updated_feb_2024_x64_dvd_a7d49804.iso with your file name:

Code:

Get-FileHash .\en-us_windows_11_business_editions_version_23h2_updated_feb_2024_x64_dvd_a7d49804.iso -Algorithm SHA512 | Format-List

After running this command, you will see output like this:

Code:

Algorithm : SHA512
Hash      : FB9DEE40548F1F901B0832A4E545FAB9E3544A7B83307496C1CA455F15E170C498687DED3E9FEFC28344DEDF406972F58CCA157D93C77F0239BFC8817D9B823B
Path      : C:\Users\User\Downloads\en-us_windows_11_business_editions_version_23h2_updated_feb_2024_x64_dvd_a7d49804.iso

Copy the Hash string and paste it below the previous string we copied in Notepad++. Check if those strings match. You need to convert second string to lower case. You can use any online utility to convert to lower case or use Notepad++ to do so. Now you can use online utility like diffchecker to check if two strings are same. If both are same, the ISO is genuine.

You can now write it to USB using Rufus.ie and clean install Windows to your PC. Now let's activate it without getting malware.

4) Open Powershell/Terminal as Administrator. You can press 'Windows'+'X' and then press 'A' to open Powershell/Terminal as Admin. Say Yes to prompt. Now go follow this guide on Massgrave to activate your Windows/Office

Code:

https://massgrave.dev/index.html

Keep your Windows updated and don't ever disable Windows Security Real-time Protection. Or just use Linux

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