Having problems with the Secure Download Manager from DreamSpark.

[Bjorn673]

I've installed the Secure Download Manager (SDM) from the DreakSpark website so I could download the Windows 8 file. When I finished downloading the SDM I opened it and got a blank screen and I can't get anything to show up on it. Any advice would be helpful.

 

[PepitoTV]

If it really finished the download, then your .iso file should have appeared in the selected destination despite the actual state of the SDM.

 

[Bjorn673]

I can't access the .iso file without the .sdx going though the SDM, if that makes sense.

 

[mitchelle]

This Secured Download Manger relies on the internet (ie. IE9 prior to Modern Windows), it doesn't "unpack" and make the ISO available unless the ".SDC" can be downloaded though one of Microsoft's browsers (is your default browser). If the download is broken then it just sits there, as the name suggests.

I have this problem and the answer is to use Windows Core 8 or System Builder's disk (where it is for a whitebox PC, instead, and just enter the OEM's product key where it is not). Then use the core key or OEM's key, because that's why you won't need the time-sensitive license.

Nothing else can be done, that's how I licensed windows and all my Windows 8 PC's worked fine re-imaged and all. Dreamspark does give changes, usually about two per key, and then which doesn't work grays out.