Pre-telemetry June 2015-updated Windows 7 Ultimate ISO, telemetry blockers, and resources for creating your own custom Windows 7 ISO

[Delicieuxz]

During summer 2015, Microsoft started heavily back-adding telemetry to Windows 7 via various updates. In this post is a link for a fully-updated June 2015 ISO of Windows 7 Ultimate 64 that pre-dates that telemetry back-adding by Microsoft, as well as resources for creating your own custom Windows 7 installer ISO that only has the updates that you wish to have. Towards the bottom of this post is an archive containing all security-only updates released from October 2016 - October 2017.

 

To install Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit using the provided June 2015-updated ISO, you'll have to have your own license key to use during the installation process. A license for Windows 7 Ultimate can be bought from eBay or reddit and other places for very cheap, less than $10 or even less than $5.

 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

June 2015-updated Windows 7 Ultimate 64 ISO download link

 

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 (updated to June 2015): https://mega.nz/#F!45cDnbST!VtW4T101EMF_jnHpzrZYLQ 

 

Description

 

Here is a clean ISO image of Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, which is fully-updated with SP1 and all other Windows 7 updates, up to June 2015. No Windows 7 key, license, or pre-activation is provided with this download. This ISO requires that a person has their own license for Windows 7 Ultimate, and that they enter it during the installation process, as is normally done.

 

This ISO image is a normal Windows 7 Ultimate installer, with nothing missing or added, other than all the official updates from Microsoft since October 2009, up until June 2015, including Service Pack 1.

 

What for

 

Microsoft back-added their telemetry and data-collection to Windows 7 around August of 2015. So, this ISO is Windows 7 Ultimate as it was right before Microsoft made any undesirable and invasive changes to its feature-set.

 

This ISO allows a person with a valid Windows 7 Ultimate license to reinstall their Windows 7 Ultimate with all updates up to before Microsoft underwent a paradigm shift and started turning Windows against its users, to use people's installations of Windows 7 for invasive, non-authorized, and likely criminal purposes. If someone wants a Windows 7 installation ISO that is updated to after Microsoft added telemetry and data-collection, one is available for download directly from Microsoft.

 

With this ISO and their genuine Windows 7 Ultimate license key, a person can install Windows 7, and then simply turn off all automatic updates, or all updates completely, in order to never have Microsoft's unwanted updates applied to their Windows 7 OS and PC, yet while still having a fully-functional, stable, and modern Windows 7.

 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Creating a Custom Windows 7 Home, Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise ISO

 

If you want to create your own custom updated Windows 7 ISO for Windows 7 Home, Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise, see this link for a guide:

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/create-an-integrated-up-to-date-windows-7-install-disc/

 

A 2011-updated Windows ISO of either Home, Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise, to be used for the above-described process, can be obtained from here: http://mirror.corenoc.de/digitalrivercontent.net/

 

The ISOs available for download from that page are the official Microsoft Windows 7 ISOs that used to be hosted for public download on Digital River.

 

If you wish to create your own updated Windows 7 ISO, you can also use these quick-access links to download torrent files for untouched official Windows 7 ISOs from Microsoft. These torrent files are the same as the ones for their same versions provided in the above link:

 

Windows 7 Home Premium x64 with SP1, 620851:  https://mega.nz/#!ltUUnRBY!cNYcwEH-NaAjk3FMwCkSNpw5KHLJXAbSwPGjssuN2g4

Windows 7 Pro x64 with SP1, 621750:  https://mega.nz/#!hsszxAqJ!vad484T4GVKGAYGSnUpNdlywA5a3yY_XL8WhsDd5ySc

Windows 7 Pro x64 without SP1, 65805: https://mega.nz/#!1t1kGTpB!4gVasiujxdCJLvGRLGalxy4Y52nzqfI3lrGLQb1cgK0

Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with SP1, 677332: https://mega.nz/#!ZsVlDbba!HLNQJFq48VSEvSZCqcozolS-n-xj3byYk7lxCsNd8Zk 

 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Windows 7 x64 Security Updates from October 2016 - October 2017

 

This download is an archive of 12 monthly security-only updates for x64 editions of Windows 7 Home, Professional, and Ultimate, spanning the period of October 2016 - October 2017: https://mega.nz/#!Jgd1zAxT!-uk7-glIG98r3oE24iaQ-mi0qIIBgMZS55oH5VgjdYY

 

Included in this archive of 12 monthly security-only updates for Windows 7 is the update to address the WannaCry ransomware threat. "(WannaCry)" has been added to that updates label to make it easy to identify, if that's all that a person wants to install.

 

The WannaCry security update for Windows 7 can also be downloaded directly from Microsoft's website at this address: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4012212

 

Caution: Some of these security updates likely contain telemetry in them. If wanting to vet what potential security issues each update is addressing, and whether it is worth risking adding some telemetry to the system, do an internet search for the individual KB identifiers for each update. For example, the WannaCry security update is labelled KB4012212.

 

Also included in this archive is another folder, which is called "select 2016 quality updates". And in that folder are a couple of possibly non-intrusive non-security updates. However, I didn't include them in this package for any specific reason other than that I didn't take them out of the folder before archiving and uploading it, and if wanting to not have any telemetry installed at all, I suggest not installing the updates that are in that folder.

 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Extra precaution with Aegis script and Spybot Anti-Beacon

 

Aegis script to block various Windows 7 telemetry updates from being found by Windows Update, and from being downloaded and installed: https://mega.nz/#!dhExAbBa!fehYhbTNz5dIBh72psfXLfwv9wMk0uhMpGli-c0pBn4

 

Additionally, a person can also check out Spybot's Anti-Beacon program, which intends to disable Windows 7 telemetry.

 

After installing Windows 7 with this ISO, a person can then run the separately-provided Aegis script to block much of Microsoft's Windows 7 telemetry updates from being searched for and from being found by Windows Update. The Aegis script was last updated May 18, 2016.

 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

A list of telemetry-containing Windows 7 updates since Aegis was last updated:

 

https://pastebin.com/jWX2zHdr

 

Windows 7/8/8.1 Updates to avoid as of the June 2018 "Patch Tuesday":
 
KB971033,  Activation exploits
KB2876229, Skype
KB2882822, replaced by KB3068708
KB2952664, telemetry crap
KB2970228, new Russian ruble symbol, breaks fonts
KB2976978, Windows 10 update crap for Win8
KB2977759, telemetry crap
KB2982791, Causes crashes
KB2990214, telemetry crap
KB3004394, faulty update
KB3018238, only applies to Windows Server 2008
KB3021917, telemetry crap
KB3022345, telemetry crap
KB3035583, telemetry crap
KB3050265, telemetry crap
KB3065987, telemetry crap
KB3068708, telemetry crap
KB3075249, telemetry crap
KB3075851, telemetry crap
KB3080149, telemetry crap
KB3081954, telemetry crap
KB3083324, telemetry crap
KB3083710, telemetry crap
KB3097877, Casuses crashes
KB3102810, telemetry crap
KB3107998, Lenovo fix to remove blocker
KB3112336, More WIN10 crap
KB3112343, More WIN10 crap + MS monitoring of win10 upgrade
KB3121255, crash during backup of PI Data server fails
KB3123862, Windows 10 update crap
KB3125574, Apr 2016 rollup with bad ones in it
KB3133977, BitLocker can't encrypt the drive and the service crashes
KB3135445, WIN7 update client to force WIN10
KB3137061, Azure virtual machines network outage data corruption
KB3138901, No Internet multiple users log on Remote Desktop Services
KB3139923, MSI repair doesn't work after you install updates
KB3147071, Connection to Oracle database fails. Causes browser lockups?
KB3150513, telemetry crap
 
other:
KB3184143 removes the Get Windows 10 app
KB3172605 July 2016 update rollup (re-released Sep 13 2016)
KB3179573 August 2016 Rollup