Re:Windows Is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe’s Extensible Metadata...
by acemarke on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @11:27AM
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Just want to say I love it when people do stuff like this. :) I have no need for that app myself, but I appreciate that you took the time to grovel through the guts of several different pages, work around barriers, solve the problem, and document all the steps you took.
This sounds like a challenge. You're on.
- Do some scratching around; discover sites hosting "wlsetup-all.exe"
- Point the Web Archive at download.live.com
- After some trial and error with broken pages find http://web.archive.org/web/20161130174327/https://support.mi...
- Follow the "Download options" link
- Eventually land on http://web.archive.org/web/20161226002912/https://support.mi..., and disable JavaScript so the page doesn't kill itself (remember on Chrome you just click the (i) to the left of the URL)
- Ah, a "Download Now" link!
Hmm... Can I...?... Hmmm.- Try and load wl.dlservice.microsoft.com/robots.txt in the Web Archive
- Get redirected to Microsoft homepage!!
- Lookup wl.dlservice.microsoft.com/* in Web Archive
- "805 URLs have been captured for this domain."
- Search for "c1ba..." - get hits!
http://web.archive.org/web/20170416220642/http://wl.dlservic...
137329840 bytes.
There are other sites that have copies of the file, but a) this one is from the Web Archive and b) I've verified using a mixture of WA and still-live Microsoft redirects that this is the latest-ever release.