Windows 10 creators update offline download

How do I get Windows 10 21H2? Subhan Zafar Subhan holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and has completed several systems and network certifications including Huwaei, Cisco and Microsoft certs. He mostly researches and writes about the Windows world. Share on:. To update a Windows machine offline you first need to download all the available updates to a location you can readily access, like a USB drive.

To do that we are going to use a free and portable application called Portable Update. Download and install the tool, then open it up and agree to the license terms. Once the tool has formatted and created the installation drive, you can restart your PC, boot from the drive and install the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update from scratch. Our How to install Windows 10 guide will show you how.

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Yes No. Although when I tried the upgrade tool, that failed too on a new Lenovo X1 Carbon , so I will try again on another testbed that did go straight from to with the upgrade tool.

And then choose "Keep personal files and apps". It keeps your personal files and most of programs. What does this refer to? If it refers to "Keep personal files and apps" in Karen's post it is not true. All of my programs are retained - Microsoft Office programs, third party utilities, printers etc.

I think that what Mike Sandells was referring to as the "preserving the existing state" is not losing programs but losing some settings.

I have seen that and there have also been reports of it in these forums. As Karen said, if you want to upgrade to the new version you need to either download it using Windows Update or download the ISO of the new version.

There is no way to do it without downloading a lot of data. You can upgrade from the ISO file in several ways. You can copy the ISO to the machine to be upgraded, mount it and run setup. I have quite a few physical and virtual machines running Windows 10 but I only download the ISO once to upgrade them all. I have tried all the above methods and they all work.