★ Windows 10 Media Creation Tool Changes After Fall 2015 Update ★

[Appletax]

See: Windows 10: Installing using the 10586 (Threshhold 2) ISOs


Coinciding with the release of the Windows 10 Fall Update, the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool has received an update.

The previous version's "Edition" drop-down menu gave us a few choices:

• Windows 10 Home
• Windows 10 Home N
• Windows 10 Home Single Language
• Windows 10 Pro
  
• Windows 10 Pro N

The new version reduces our choices to:

• Windows 10
• Windows 10 N

Information on the N versions

★ According to the Windows 10 tech support, Home and Pro are now integrated into a single ISO. So if you download the "Windows 10" edition, you will have an ISO (or USB flash drive) containing both Windows 10 Home and Pro.

★ Whichever version of Windows 10 your product key is associated with will determine which version of Windows 10 is installed (or, if doing an in-place upgrade, whichever version of Windows 10 that your version of Windows 7/8/8.1 qualifies for). If you tell it you don't have a product key (you don't if you upgraded from Windows 7-8.1), it will let you choose to install either Windows 10 Home or Pro.

★ The Windows 10 ISO contains the Fall Update. So it is essentially Windows 10 SP1. During installation, the installer shows that the last modification was 10/31/2015. After installing Windows 10, only two small updates from 11/9/2015 were installed.

Windows 10 All-in-One ISO
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★ When you use the Media Creation Tool to download Windows 10, you can create an all-in-one Windows 10 ISO that contains:

• Windows 10 Home x86
• Windows 10 Home x64
• Windows 10 Pro x86
• Windows 10 Pro x86

To do this, use these settings:



Note: when you go to install Windows 10, you'll first be brought to a boot loader screen that will give you two choices:

1. Windows 10 Setup (64-bit)
2. Windows 10 Setup (32-bit)

Simply choose the architecture you want and then you can either enter your product key and the installer will automatically choose the correct version of Windows 10 that corresponds to it, or tell the installer you don't have the product key and you'll be sent to another screen where you can select either Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro.


Here's part of the chat log:

 

[citizensmith]

Thanks for that info. And Thanks MS for a single home/pro ISO at last.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Finally it's only taken 10 years for Microsoft to do what hackers always did to Windows 7 disks to make them universal. LOL

 

[mrapoc]

ah my gawd!

i did it yesterday thinking i'd get the latest version but evidently not.

all in one iso! whoop!

 

[cypress]

Excellent stuff! Thanks @Appletax it is time to update my Flash Drive now.