Can't download Win 7 ISO for English

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  1. Posts : 38
    Windows 7 32-bit
       #1

    Can't download Win 7 ISO for English


    I can't find anyone complaining about this so I'm guessing this is a new problem.

    My daughter's husband trashed his laptop (again) so before she brings it over I figured I'd download the iso and burn it. Did that successfully prior to Feb and created a universal iso but should have kept it rather than send it back with the machine.

    I went to https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/soft...nload/windows7

    I successfully entered a product key but then I'm asked to choose a language. Except English is not one of the choices.

    Attached is a snapshot of all choices from the dropdown. I tried just clicking the Confirm button hoping it would default to English but alas it requires that I make a choice.

    Am I being really stupid here? Or has MS taken away the English version?

    My target is a Home Premium.

    A couple questions

    1 - Am I going to the right place here? Or is there some other location for the English version.

    2 - I have disks for my own machines that are full retail, but not SP1 (the key used above), a couple SP1 upgrade disks, and a couple OEM disks one of which should be SP1. Can I make an iso out of any of these and use that tool to make a universal iso? I'd of course rather use an SP1 but if I can only do it with the full retail, I can live with that.

    I do still have a couple backups from when I last built the machine so I'm thinking I could install non-SP1 and restore to SP1. But it would be nice to be able to burn both a 32 & 64 bit universal ISO and keep them around.
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  2. Posts : 10,485
    W7 Pro SP1 64bit
       #2

    You got more (useless) choices than shown in this post: Windows 7 SP1 OEM ISO - Microsoft Site

    I doubt that it will help, but you might try this link:
    Code:
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7
    vs. the link you posted
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows7
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  3. Posts : 38
    Windows 7 32-bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    thx

    Interesting. Hadn't noticed that en-ca in the url. Not sure where I got it as I tried a number of links from here and other places that google spit out. Glad I posted the link.

    No that didn't make a difference. Without doing a side by side comparison, it appeared to display all the same languages.

    But I played around with it. I tried both an upgrade key and an OEM key. I had read that neither of those should work. The upgrade key only displayed Finnish and French like in your linked post. But the OEM did have English.

    So I downloaded those. Your link contained a discussion on whether those could be used with a retail key but I didn't see a definitive conclusion on that. I'll have to try to figure that one out.

    Hard to believe that MS would put that much work in to screwing up a simple download site.
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  4. Posts : 10,485
    W7 Pro SP1 64bit
       #4

    Glad that you got something to download.

    re: retail key
    Try an install and let us know
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  5. Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
       #5

    Here is one that some report it works.

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/home
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  6. Posts : 16,119
    7 X64
       #6

    Yes, you can use retail key.

    You can also change it allow any edition to be selected.

    http://code.kliu.org/misc/winisoutil...al_utility.zip

    spokey said:
    thx

    Interesting. Hadn't noticed that en-ca in the url. Not sure where I got it as I tried a number of links from here and other places that google spit out. Glad I posted the link.

    No that didn't make a difference. Without doing a side by side comparison, it appeared to display all the same languages.

    But I played around with it. I tried both an upgrade key and an OEM key. I had read that neither of those should work. The upgrade key only displayed Finnish and French like in your linked post. But the OEM did have English.

    So I downloaded those. Your link contained a discussion on whether those could be used with a retail key but I didn't see a definitive conclusion on that. I'll have to try to figure that one out.

    Hard to believe that MS would put that much work in to screwing up a simple download site.
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  7. Posts : 1,797
    Win 7 Ultimate, Win 8.1 Pro, Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon (All 64-Bit)
       #7

    Layback Bear said:
    Here is one that some report it works.

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/home
    That newest link still won't give me the option to download English. It recognises I have a retail 7 Pro key but doesn't give the option to download English.

    Thought MS would have at least fixed this by now!
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  8. Posts : 16,119
    7 X64
       #8

    Hi Brds7t7,

    Just d/l any legit English iso, the edition doesn't matter. You can toggle off ( or remove ) ei.cfg to allow any edition to be installed.

    http://code.kliu.org/misc/winisoutil...al_utility.zip
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  9. Posts : 1,797
    Win 7 Ultimate, Win 8.1 Pro, Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon (All 64-Bit)
       #9

    SIW2 said:
    Hi Brds7t7,

    Just d/l any legit English iso, the edition doesn't matter. You can toggle off ( or remove ) ei.cfg to allow any edition to be installed.

    http://code.kliu.org/misc/winisoutil...al_utility.zip
    Hi SIW2 and thanks. Luckily I do have all the English ISO's already available. It's just annoying for people who are desperate to get their hands on one and have no other option. Seems weird that English doesn't come up in the list of languages to choose though.
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  10. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #10

    Yes it is weird for sure :)
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