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m417z / winbindex

An index of Windows binaries, including download links for executables such as exe, dll and sys files
https://winbindex.m417z.com
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Windows 7 binaries? #166

Open jrmuizel opened 2 years ago

jrmuizel commented 2 years ago

Is it possible to include older versions of Windows in the index?

m417z commented 2 years ago

It should be possible as long as the updates can be downloaded from the Microsoft Update Catalog, and it seems that at least some of the Windows 7 updates are available, even though Windows 7 is EOL for more than 2 years. Personally, I don't need Windows 7 binaries, and I think most people don't. Actually, I've been thinking about adding ARM64 Win10 and Win11 to Winbindex, which I think will be useful to more people.

May I ask what's your use case? Security-related?

As you understand, I'm not very excited about indexing Windows 7 binaries, but I might change my mind if there's enough interest from more than a couple of people. Meanwhile, you can grab the scripts in the data folder and try to adjust them for Windows 7.

jrmuizel commented 2 years ago

My use case is checking for and confirming behaviour changes/bugs between Windows versions. I don't have a specific need at the moment, but I'll try adjusting the scripts when I do.

nowtilous commented 1 year ago

i'd also like to have here windows 7 binaries (and 8/8.1) if possible

nutterthanos commented 1 year ago

It should be possible as long as the updates can be downloaded from the Microsoft Update Catalog, and it seems that at least some of the Windows 7 updates are available, even though Windows 7 is EOL for more than 2 years. Personally, I don't need Windows 7 binaries, and I think most people don't. Actually, I've been thinking about adding ARM64 Win10 and Win11 to Winbindex, which I think will be useful to more people.

May I ask what's your use case? Security-related?

As you understand, I'm not very excited about indexing Windows 7 binaries, but I might change my mind if there's enough interest from more than a couple of people. Meanwhile, you can grab the scripts in the data folder and try to adjust them for Windows 7.

i found an way to find those updates that are not on microsoft update catalog or i just give an entire list of update urls well not all sadly but more than on there anyway

m417z commented 1 year ago

@nutterthanos if you want to work on it, the main things you need to change are these files: upd01_get_list_of_updates.py upd02_get_manifests_from_updates.py Check out the flow graph in the data folder as well.

For an example of a different data source, you can check out winbindex-data-insider.