Download Windows 10 1511 (TH2 10586) ISO & Create USB/DVD Installation Media

With the official release of Windows 10 November Update (version 1511 build 10586 from TH2 – Threshold 2 branch), Microsoft has also updated the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool to include and incorporate the latest build. From now on, the ISO images and/or USB or DVD installation media created by the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool is of Windows 10 Version 1511 Build 10586, and will install this version directly.

The Media Creation Tool allows you to download latest version of Windows 10 to upgrade the current PC to Windows 10, or to download the Windows 10 ISO images, or to create Windows 10 DVD dic or Windows 10 USB flash media for clean installation or installing the new version of Windows on a different PC.

Note

No product key is required to download the Windows 10 ISO images, or to create DVD or USB media trough the Media Creation Tool.
No product key is required when upgrading Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 that is genuine and activated to Windows 10.
No product key is required (by skipping the product key entering) when clean install Windows 10 from scratch on a device which has previously upgraded to Windows 10 and gets activated in the past (hence the HWID, the hardware ID, is recorded on Microsoft activation server). The free Windows 10 license with permanent activation also applies to computers upgraded to Windows 10 final RTM Build 10240 from Windows Insider Preview Builds and pirated copies of Windows managed to trick Microsoft into believing it’s genuine.
Beginning from Windows 10 Build 10586 (version 1511), user can directly install and activate Windows 10 with Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 product key.
~~A valid Windows product key is required when directly installing Windows 10 for the first time on a device.~~

To use the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool, follow these steps (this tutorial focuses on downloading ISO and creating DVD or USB media for Windows 10):

Download Windows 10 Media Creation Tool from ~~https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10~~ , or via the following download links:
32-bit Media Creation Tool: MediaCreationTool.exe
64-bit Media Creation Tool: MediaCreationToolx64.exe
Above links now contains only reference to Windows 10 RTM tools, but you can still download Windows 10 Version 1511 Build 10586 of November Update tools here.
Run the Media Creation Tool.
In the “Windows 10 Setup” window, choose Upgrade this PC now if you want to upgrade Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 for free, and hit Next.
To get Windows 10 ISO images, or to create a Windows 10 DVD disc or USB flash drive, choose Create installation media for another PC, and hit Next.

Choose the Language, Edition and Architecture of Windows 10 that you want to download. Refer to the table below to identify the appropriate Windows 10 edition that you should download, as part of Windows 10 upgrade path or to ensure selected if the one which corresponding to the license or product key you purchased. Click or tap on Next when selection is done.

Host operating system edition	Windows 10 edition
Windows 7 Starter Windows 7 Home Basic Windows 7 Home Premium Windows 8/8.1 Windows 8.1 with Bing Windows 10 Home	Windows 10 Home
Windows 7 Professional Windows 7 Ultimate Windows 8 Pro Windows 8.1 Pro Windows 8/8.1 Professional with Media Center Windows 10 Pro	Windows 10 Pro
Windows 8/8.1 Single Language Windows 8 Single Language with Bing	Windows 10 Home Single Language
Windows 8/8.1 Chinese Language Edition Windows 8 Chinese Language Edition with Bing	Windows 10 Home China

Select either to create a USB flash drive or ISO file as the media for Windows 10 OS downloaded. If you want to burn a DVD disc, choose ISO file. Hit Next when done.
If you selected USB flash drive, choose the USB flash removable drive to be used as Windows 10 media. If the tool can’t find a USB flash drive, plug in a USB flash drive to computer, and click or tap on Refresh drive list.
Windows 10 Media Creation Tool will format and write to USB flash drive without warning, so make sure you don’t have important files on the USB flash drive.
If you selected ISO file, choose a folder location to store the Windows 10 ISO image.
Media Creation Tool starts to download and verify Windows 10 files with a progress status.
After the download is complete, the ISO or USB flash drive media is created automatically. Select Finish to exit.
In Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, you can directly burn the ISO to DVD disc with Windows built-in DVD burner called Windows Disc Image Burner.

You can now locate the Windows 10 ISO or media at the location you specified in the wizard, and use it to install or upgrade any PC, such as using Windows 10 ISO to upgrade Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, by simply running the setup.exe. Do remember to check on Windows 10 system requirements to ensure that current system can run Windows 10 properly.

Microsoft Tech Bench Upgrade Program provides official download links to Windows 7 (RTM & SP1), Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 ISO files.

The ISO images that are downloaded directly from Microsoft’s servers is completely the same and has identical file hashes with ISO images posted on MSDN.

Note that the file hashes (CRC32, SHA1, MDA and etc.) for Windows 10 ISO images created by Media Creation Tool are unique as time stamps and other factors are different for each computers. However, all Windows 10 ISO downloaded is identical, all of which the final gold master RTM release of Windows 10 November Update with build version number of 10586.th2_release_sec.151104-1948.

Update 3: Windows 10 Anniversary Update v.1607 (Build 14393)

Update 2: Download links to Windows 10 Build 10586 tools are still available, as listed in step 1.

Update 1: Microsoft has removed Windows 10 November Update (Version 1511 Build 10586) MCT, ADK, SDK, WDK, HLK, Mobile Emulator and ISO from TechBench.