Downloading Windows SDK

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Downloading Windows SDK

Okay, I finally found where I can download the .img file for the SDK but come on...over a gigabyte

The download page indicates with my 56k dialup connection I would be looking at over 48 hours! It suggests I run the web setup and 'choose only the components I need'.

I have access to a broadband connection (for short periods of time) and I have a 1GB flash drive. Is there anywhere I can download just 'the components I need' to a flash drive and then install to my home computer

I realize all you guys in Redmond have personal T3 connections but us poor smucks in the hinterlands are still surviving on dialup.

How bout throwing us a bone and making stuff like this a little easier to download

Thanks.

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Downloading Windows SDK

  • StargatePwns

    This is something we've wrestled with for awhile... my Product Unit Manager blogged about this several months ago. The fact is that the SDK contains a lot of content, and in the ISO form it's quite large. There's simply no way around it. We do offer a fulfillment house from which you can order a DVD at a low cost.

  • fripper

    I'm glad that Microsoft is aware of the issue. What I would like to see is definitely for the documentation and the samples to be broken out into seperate downloads. Is it possible to seperate the x86 stuff from the x64/IA64 stuff

    Actually, my main point is that if you can seperate components for the web install why can't you download just the .iso or .img files you want (or can get by with :-))

    The most important point is that there should always be redistributable files. It is fairly common to have to do more than one install or, as in my case, the need to install at a different location.

    I can handle downloading two to three hundred MB at a time but it just seems premature to have to download gigabytes.

    Thanks for listening.
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