Windows 7 ISO downloads links down again for 5 days

Please read the post at the top of this thread.

gregrocker said:

Please read the post at the top of this thread.

Um, at this time the previous post is correct - "...Could Not Be Provided" from the link to microsofthup.com.

Regards,
GEWB

thanks guys for your responses.

@NoN: I think i'll wait a lil bit to see if they will put it back up again....i'll definitely prefer to have the two in one file than two separate files.

@Indianatone: if they don't put it back up soon, i'll certainly follow your links

@jimbo45: don't really know much about torrent sites so I think i'll hold off on that for now. thanks very much for the input though. much appreciated

thanks once again guys

sammy

point taking, thanks for the advice Indianatone....better safe than sorry

i'll get on it right away. I take it though that those rtm files from digitalriver don't contain no bloatware?

sammy

alphanumeric said:

It has always been a struggle for the average Joe to get clean unmodified install media to redo their OEM PC when things go south. I have never understood why? To me it just seems to promote the use of pirated media, intentional or otherwise. I'd be reluctant to pay for recovery media that is just going to reimage all the bloat back on the system again. Well, I know for a fact I wouldn't do it on any of my systems. I'd find another way.

You know how if your coffee maker or toaster breaks down we usually just go out and buy a new one? I'm guessing this is the approach the OEMs want us to take.

Of course as computer enthusiasts and professionals we aren't having any of that BS, but it's unreasonable to expect OEMs to devote time and resources to something that doesn't positively affect their profit margins whereas users getting new PCs do.

So between the OEMs wanting to divulge every last penny from its customers and Microsoft wanting to quickly make Windows 7 a thing of the past (Windows 8 is awesome right? Right?! ), we might as well be stuck between a rock and a hard place.

The "Media Refresh" versions create only coasters because (at least Home Premium and Ultimate) they return "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing" and it entirely halts installation before it can actually begin. There are .dll files in them that shouldn't be in there. It was not my brand new hardware and it also wasn't a driver problem either, nor was it my disks... we even wasted a DL disk. In the end I lucked out because I found my older disks WITHOUT "Media Refresh"... but also, unfortunately, without SP1 too. Matter of fact, I will be making copious backups of these. Just have to say, shame on Microsoft for not actually providing full support of their operating systems... says a lot about them really. I understand they want everyone to run immediately to their crummy 8/8.1 but... yeah, no thanks... this is a really grimy way to go about it, don't appreciate it at all. If they're really that hard up for money (LOL! As if...) then why don't they just apply a few dollars of service fee for hosting them? I'd pay for that if it instead means not being able to get them from a legitimate source at all... I wouldn't be happy about it, but that's better than them being totally unavailable.

The Media Refresh was what I was using before I got my Microsoft MVP, I didn't have access to TechNet or MSDN then. They worked fine for me on several different desktop PC's and a laptop. As far as I know its only a very small difference between them and the previous Windows 7 ISO. Its too bad they didn't work for you. Not having SP1 already integrated is a bummer too.