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I know from experience that using a product key for an N version of Windows with a non-N version installation will fail.

Earlier I could just select the N edition in Microsoft's web form for downloading ISOs, but now when trying to download Windows 10 N all I'm offered is a media creation tool. As expected the tool was not a good replacement for the web form, and did not offer me any N versions.

  • Why are no N versions offered? Have they been discontinued or something?
  • Are they officially available somewhere else?

Update: I'm currently on Windows.

Update 2: None of the answers in the proposed duplicate solve the problem.

  • 3rd party download link generator: "File is not available for download" on every try.
  • Media creation tool: Doesn't work -- that's why I'm here.
  • Change user agent in Firefox: Only offers me Windows 10 Fall Creator's Update. No N versions.
  • HeiDoc Windows ISO downloader: Update 3: Initially abysmal transfer rates. They seem to increase to acceptable speeds after a while.

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After contacting Microsoft support I was assured that

Actually, once you boot the device with the Installation media [...] you will see the Pro , Home a, N and KN editions. If and only if you boot the device with an installation media.

The problem here was that the Media Creation Tool didn't tell you that all those variants were included in the edition that it simply calls "Windows 10", in combination with the fact that e.g. Windows 7 had different and incompatible images depending on whether your license key was N or not.

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Several possibilities are listed here, but the only answer from there that worked for me was this one, which unfortunately requires me to download and run an unknown 3rd party .exe, which pretty much openly asks me if it could mine cryptocurrency ("use resources") in the background. Needless to say that didn't make me more comfortable, but at least it actually offered the N versions for download.

The transfer speeds pick up after some time.

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