



You also cannot use third party download manager to download the ISO to have better control, such as ability to pause and resume downloads. Everything is done in the background, and you don’t have control on the download process. What it does is to determine the need of the user, and then download the setup files or ISO image accordingly. Media Creation Tool itself does not contain any Windows installation files, not to mention the ISO. The official way that Microsoft advertised is by downloading the respective version of Media Creation Tool (MCT), and let the tool download and create the actual Windows ISO files. I’ll try and cover some of these options in a future article, so make sure to subscribe to BinaryFork.Microsoft allows consumers to download Windows 7 ISO, Windows 8.1 ISO and Windows 10 ISO from its server. I’m talking about things like adding updates, removing default apps, all interesting stuff for advanced users. The ISO file version can be used together with special tools to customize the installation. Most people will choose to burn the installation file directly to a USB disk that can be used to install Windows 10 on any computer, including the current one. The entire process takes only a few minutes on an average Internet connection and a reasonably modern computer. On the last step, you can open the folder where the installation kit was downloaded or burn the file to a DVD.Wait for the installation file to download and get verified.You can burn the ISO file to a flash drive later on if needed. Select to download and burn the image to a USB flash disk or just download the ISO image.

Most people won’t need to change anything. If you don’t like the preselected options you can choose the language of the installer, the Windows 10 edition, and the architecture (32 bit, 64 bit, or both versions).Select Create installation media and click Next.Wait for the installer to do some checks and make sure you agree with the terms.The file name will change with future versions. This is always the latest major version of Windows 10. Open the downloaded file, MediaCreationTool21H1.exe in this case.Don’t click on Update now: this will only update the current computer. Click on the Download tool now button from the Create Windows 10 installation media section.
