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Fido: A PowerShell download script for Windows ISOs and UEFI Shell
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Fido: A PowerShell download script for Microsoft Windows and UEFI Shell ISOs
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Fido is a PowerShell script that is primarily designed to be used in [Rufus](https://github.com/pbatard/rufus), but that
can also be used in standalone fashion, and whose purpose is to automate access to the official Microsoft Windows retail
ISO download links as well as provide convenient access to bootable UEFI Shell images.
ISO download links as well as provide convenient access to [bootable UEFI Shell images](https://github.com/pbatard/UEFI-Shell).
This script exists because, while Microsoft does make retail ISO download links freely and publicly available (at least
for Windows 8 and Windows 10), it only does so after actively forcing users to jump through a lot of unwarranted hoops,
that create an exceedingly counterproductive, if not downright unfriendly, consumer experience and that greatly detract
from what people really want (direct access to ISO downloads).
for Windows 8 through Windows 11), up until recent releases, most of these links were only available after forcing users
to jump through a lot of unwarranted hoops that created an exceedingly counterproductive, if not downright unfriendly,
consumer experience, that greatly detracted from what people really want (direct access to ISO downloads).
As to the reason one might want to download Windows __retail__ ISOs, as opposed to the ISOs that are generated by
Microsoft's own Media Creation Tool (MCT), this is because using official retail ISOs is currently the only way to
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How it works
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The script basically performs the same operation as one might perform when visiting either of the following URLs (that
is, provided that you have also changed your `User-Agent` browser string, since, when they detect that you are using a
version of Windows that is the same as the one you are trying to download, the Microsoft web servers at these addresses
redirect you __away__ from the pages that allow you to download retail ISOs):
The script basically performs the same operation as one might perform when visiting the following URL (that is, in the
case of Windows 10, provided that you have also changed your `User-Agent` browser string, since, the Microsoft web
servers detect that you are using a version of Windows that is the same as the one you are trying to download, they
may redirect you __away__ from the page that allows you to obtain a direct ISO download link):
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download
After checking access to these URLs, to confirm that they are accessible, the script first queries the web API from the
After checking basic access to the Microsoft software downloads website the script first queries the web API from the
Microsoft servers, to request the language selection available for the version of Windows selected, and then requests
the actual download links for all the architectures available for that language + version.
the actual download links, for all the architectures available for that language + version.
Requirements
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