not anymore. December 2024 ISOs are now okay to use (at least the US English one for Win10 22H2, which I'll use to re-install Win10 on a couple of my computers in early January 2025). I no longer need the November 2024 ISO downloads
While waiting for the x64 patches to show up, I want to ask something important. Are the SVF files included in there the same as the ones provided by GezoeSloog? Because their sums here seem different. Code: $ sha1sum gezoe/el-gr_windows_10_consumer_editions_version_22h2_updated_jan_2025_x86_dvd_45152214.svf e9a80fa2b8a678f08969045817fbc35345a40cba gezoe/el-gr_windows_10_consumer_editions_version_22h2_updated_jan_2025_x86_dvd_45152214.svf $ sha1sum svfsfx/el-gr_windows_10_consumer_editions_version_22h2_updated_jan_2025_x86_dvd_45152214.svf f41f21bf7f83ed22007d93bebc2da385b483c9bf svfsfx/el-gr_windows_10_consumer_editions_version_22h2_updated_jan_2025_x86_dvd_45152214.svf I extracted the exe files with 7z to get the svf ones like so Code: $ 7z x el-gr_windows_10_consumer_editions_version_22h2_updated_jan_2025_x86_dvd_45152214.exe (lots of output from 7z) $ ls Decode.bat pd el-gr_windows_10_consumer_editions_version_22h2_updated_jan_2025_x86_dvd_45152214.exe smv.exe el-gr_windows_10_consumer_editions_version_22h2_updated_jan_2025_x86_dvd_45152214.svf I would love to use the pixeldrain or the buzzheavier mirror, because I can do everything from command line. p.s. The pd executable there is a small command line app, written in go, to download from pixeldrain. Ignore it please. ---edit Oh there is also a decode.bat file there. I wonder what this does
If the downloaded isos are identical, why would the svf patches differ? Unless you use different compression options or something similar.
The patches differ because they are made on a different date/time, smartversion.exe does the magic, i just run scripts to create the patches.
Bulk downloading is only causing the hosts to block downloads or have very short retentions, just download the patch you really need.