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An utility to convert Unified Update Platform file sets into Windows Media files
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UUP Media Creator is a set of tools designed to help you scan, fetch updates from Microsoft own Unified Update Platform (UUP), and allow you to create medium out of it when an appropriate tool does not exist in the wild.

Right now the tooling includes:

• UUPDownload: Allows you to scan, fetch and download updates from UUP (Windows Desktop, Windows 10X, Windows Holographic, Windows Server, Windows Mobile, Windows IoT etc...)
• UUPMediaConverter: Allows you to convert a downloaded UUP update for Windows Desktop into an usable ISO image to use in last decade DVD reader or simply mounted.

• Rafael Rivera (@WithinRafael - https://github.com/riverar) for being a strong supporter of this project and a few contributions
• Lucas (@thebookisclosed - https://github.com/thebookisclosed) for a lot of important contributions to this project including the AppX code for Nickel and beyond

(1): requires apt-get install genisoimage

(2): requires brew install cdrtools

(3): requires apt-get install libfuse2

UUPDownload might be a little too complicated to use for some people. For reference purposes, here's the current set of parameters you can use as of 2021-05-18:

TIP 1: You can append -e [Edition to download] to get the files needed only for a specific edition

TIP 2: You can append -l [Language to download] to get the files needed only for a specific language

The -v is not used to specify which version of Windows you want to download! The parameters used by UUPDownload above are used to tell Windows Update which version of Windows you are currently running. Therefore, the -v parameter is used to tell Windows Update your current version of Windows. You will never get versions lower than the value specified in -v and some requests may also never get you the version specified in -v but only newer. If, however, you want to download a very specific version using -v then you must use the -y option to tell Windows Update you only want this version.

You are free to contribute to this project, in fact we would welcome any form of help. But please keep in mind the following points if you do:

• Please try to maintain your PR with a reasonable set of commits
• Please try to not change functionality not concerned by your PR
• Avoid changing the entire app, if you feel like this is needed, please file an issue so we can discuss about it between contributors.

This project, as with anything in Computer Science, is not bug free. If you find anything wrong, please file an issue in the issue tracker. Please include the tool version, as well as the Operating System you are running on your computer, and any other applicable details helpful to reproduce the issue.