Well.....that got weird quick:)

The official MS DVD does clean installs as well. You can download it here:
https://www.microsoft.com...-usb-dvd-download-tool

All upgrades auto activate as MS is storing serial numbers in the cloud this time around.

Doesn't matter if you are an expert programmer or not, nobody will be able to debug zillions of lines of code of an unofficial installation. If there's any malicious code in there antivirus may not be able to detect as it could be firmly rooted. It might be impossible to know if something is in there logging your key pressing for instance.

If you are happy with this good for you, but I would freak out. Perhaps all you have is the MSDVD. You could run a checksum against it.

Cheers.

I know I was just being me, weird...I was in a good mood because of my song being accepted that you know about good Doktor....and I haven't programmed in machine language since I had my Commodore 64...but when I did I programmed it in the Interrupt Vector...now that I say is impressive! I don't know enough about Windows 10 yet to really recommend this way to anyone it's just working great so far for me and that's cool and I hope it continues because I don't have my Windows 8.1 key that came with my PC so I seek out what seem to be good, clean torrented auto activating copies of Windows to use as it's a fast way to get my system up and running. If your like me, own windows but don't have a disk and don't worry if someone is recording your keystrokes and have no bank account or bank account info/credit card numbers on your DAW and it running poorly and your stuck, then and only then P.M. and I'll send you the download link from the server...Thank guys, Shawn.

shawn@trustmedia.tv
If your like me, own windows but don't have a disk and don't worry if someone is recording your keystrokes and have no bank account or bank account info/credit card numbers on your DAW and it running poorly and your stuck, then and only then P.M. and I'll send you the download link from the server...Thank guys, Shawn.

Shawn I just don't understand, I already said you can download the DVD from Microsoft for free here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10
 
Distributing software like this is illegal you could get into serious trouble, and frankly if I was running these forums I would delete what you wrote about PM'ing, but I'm not... so whatever....
 
Please DO NOT download any distributions other than via MS official sources.
Thanks...
 

Hopefully no one makes the mistake of doing a clean install without doing the upgrade first. Otherwise you will not have a license key.

I don't have a good install with valid key of Windows 8.1 that came with my PC so how would I validate the Microsoft ISO? I paid for windows, I paid for SONAR, this is just the only way for me to it get it activated without a previous working valid install...advice appreciated! -S

Sheesh man, you try and give some tips and suddenly everyone is on your case.
 
I don't now if people know this because there's such a stigma attached to it, but bittorrent has quite a few legitimate uses. I've used it to transfer large files back and forth with clients with great success. 
 
But, even that being aside, if this guy wants to torrent stuff, or he wants to not have an active anti-virus, or wants to forgo the use of an imaging program so he could restore his current state without having to reinstall all his programs, that's his business. There's also several sites out there that help you customize a Windows ISO so it installs the exact version you want with the options you want, heck even with preinstalled programs. It's all useless without your product keys of course, but creating a customized ISO doesn't really freak me out on the level of an old school warez user plugging their mods (which this isn't).
 

shawn@trustmedia.tv
I don't have a good install with valid key of Windows 8.1 that came with my PC so how would I validate the Microsoft ISO? I paid for windows, I paid for SONAR, this is just the only way for me to it get it activated without a previous working valid install...advice appreciated! -S

For a clean install, do the in place upgrade first. Copy the license key. Do a clean install.  Personally I would run the in place upgrade to make sure everything works. 

...wicked
Sheesh man, you try and give some tips and suddenly everyone is on your case.
 
I don't now if people know this because there's such a stigma attached to it, but bittorrent has quite a few legitimate uses. I've used it to transfer large files back and forth with clients with great success. 
 
But, even that being aside, if this guy wants to torrent stuff, or he wants to not have an active anti-virus, or wants to forgo the use of an imaging program so he could restore his current state without having to reinstall all his programs, that's his business. There's also several sites out there that help you customize a Windows ISO so it installs the exact version you want with the options you want, heck even with preinstalled programs. It's all useless without your product keys of course, but creating a customized ISO doesn't really freak me out on the level of an old school warez user plugging their mods (which this isn't).
 

I think you're missing the point.  I don't see that anyone here is attacking the "solution provider".  All they're saying is that the practices he's describing are not "best practices" nor are they legal.  He's not talking about going to legal Torrent sites, he's describing how to get a "auto-activating" version of Windows and then offering to distribute it.  I don't think anyone has a problem with him doing it, it's the fact that he's recommending it to everyone here, and trying to justify it by siting Commodore64 programming vs. Windows 10.
 
If this works for him, fine.  Just don't recommend it to people that may not be aware of the consequences and would inadvertently be breaking the law.
 
Just my 2 cents...
-na