Verify your Windows 7 ISO
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With Windows 7 on the brink of completion, the RTM phase is expected to
come before the end of the month - possibly even less than a week from
now. Already proving to be both popular and successful, you can bet your
bottom dollar that the RTM copy of Windows 7 will hit torrent sites
instantaneously.
Now, we’re not encouraging you to go and pirate the software, and we
don’t have to. A majority of the enthusiast community will download
Windows 7 illegitimately. Some will have already pre-ordered Microsoft’s
latest OS, others will undoubtedly come into a legal copy at one point
or another, and many will flat out steal 7 – you know who you are.
That out of the way, the bottom line is, nobody wants to wait until October 22 to get their hands on the final build of Windows 7. Unfortunately, by jumping the gun, you’re going to have to trust an unofficial source. This certainly has its risks, as we’ve seen with past reports of infected torrents of Windows 7 creating botnets.
Recognizing this fact, Long Zheng and Sven Groot developed a handy
application which generates and verifies the hash of your Windows 7 ISO.
The program is very small at 253KB, and beyond easy to use. To check
the validity of your ISO, download the free utility here. Run the program (Windows7IsoVerifier.exe) and you can browse to your ISO file (or just drag and drop it onto the executable).
The process of downloading the program
and verifying your copy of Windows 7 should take less than a minute if
you have quick fingers and a modern system. At the time of writing, it
only works with the English versions of Windows 7.
That out of the way, the bottom line is, nobody wants to wait until October 22 to get their hands on the final build of Windows 7. Unfortunately, by jumping the gun, you’re going to have to trust an unofficial source. This certainly has its risks, as we’ve seen with past reports of infected torrents of Windows 7 creating botnets.
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