FlashBoot 3.4

FlashBoot can install fully-functional Windows 10/11 or Windows 8.1 to a USB thumbdrive, so you can carry your OS, apps, documents, games and browsers wherever you go!

Razvan Serea News Reporter Neowin · Oct 19, 2025 05:37 EDT with 0 comments

FlashBoot

FlashBoot enables you to install an instance of the Windows OS onto a USB storage device, empowering you to boot any PC from that device. With FlashBoot, you'll be able to walk about with a fully-functional installation of Windows 10/11 or 8.1 in your pocket, ready to go under any circumstance. Need your favorite app, document, game, or browser when you're sitting in front of a strange computer? Just break out your USB device prepared with FlashBoot!

FlashBoot Free can install fresh copy of Windows to USB thumbdrive, and FlashBoot Pro can create bootable clone of your existing Windows installation (including apps, settings, documents, games, browsers etc).

Also FlashBoot Pro can create installable clone of Windows 7, Windows 8.x or Windows 10/11 which can be used to instantly copy all your apps, settings, documents, games and browsers from old computer to a new computer (even with dissimilar hardware), move operating system from HDD to SSD, move OS from/to RAID array, copy OS between virtual machine and real hardware, or switch Windows boot method between UEFI and non-UEFI. This feature can be used to gain unpartitioned disk space for dual-boot configurations by reinstalling your OEM copy of Windows in-place. Additionally, this self-extracting backup of Windows will be of good use in the case of next ransomware virus attack, failed Windows update, or accidently deleted file.

Using FlashBoot, you can install Windows 7 to new laptop or new PC with no problems. (Due to lack of builting USB 3.0 support, installation of plain Windows 7 to new computer fails right on the first screen: mouse, keyboard and boot device are inaccessible to plain Windows 7.) FlashBoot can prepare Windows setup on USB thumbdrive with slipstreamed drivers, so you can quickly and easily install Windows 7 to any new computer, even Kaby Lake and Ryzen platforms. Besides of builtin USB 3.0, NVMe and RAID drivers, FlashBoot can also slipstream user-supplied drivers.

And finally, FlashBoot facilitates installation of older operating systems, such as Windows XP, from USB thumdrive, and running minified version of it (known as BartPE) from USB thumbdrive. You can even use FlashBoot to build self-extracting standalone EXE files that contain exactly what you want, for rapid deployment whenever you need it. If capacity of USB thumdrive was reduced by other tools, then FlashBoot will automatically recover it to full capacity.

Features available only in FlashBoot Pro ($ 29.95)

Create bootable clone of Windows 7/8.x/10/11 on USB thumbdrive, which will boot independently from main OS on HDD/SSD
Create installable clone of Windows 7/8.x/10/11 with optional driver integration (USB 3.0, NVMe, AHCI/RAID or user-supplied drivers)
Prepare USB thumbdrive for installation of Windows 7/8.x/10/11 or Windows Vista to internal HDD/SSD with driver integration (USB 3.0, NVMe, AHCI/RAID or user-supplied drivers)
Prepare USB thumbdrive for installation of Windows XP to internal HDD/SSD
Install mini version of Windows XP (BartPE) to USB thumbdrive, which will boot independently from main OS on HDD/SSD
Create self-extracting archives (USB formatters with predefined content)

FlashBoot 3.4 changes:

Starting from this version, FlashBoot Pro can prepare Windows 10/11 installation USB thumbdrive (or install Windows 10/11 to USB thumbdrive in ToGo mode) with two types of privacy improvements (enabled independently of each other):

Politely ask Windows 10/11 to phone home less. These registry tweaks reduce Windows 10/11 background connections, though they don’t eliminate such connections entirely.
Inject privacy enhancing DNS proxy: a lightweight service that can block the following types of Windows 10/11 unwanted network activity, based on your preferences:

Windows builtins: Telemetry, Windows Update, MS Defender and SmartScreen, Cloud Logon & MDM Enrollment, Windows Push Notifications, Windows Store, Parental Control and MS Licensing.
Separate products: Cortana and Speech API, XBox, Zune and Groove, Cloud Graphics Apps, MS Edge, MS Wallet, Skype, OneDrive and MS Office 365.
Miscellaneous: Remote Access / Remote Help, MS Cloud Search, MS Maps and Location Services, MS News, Weather and Ads.

If you tick all checkboxes within this option, this will make Windows 10/11 stop phoning home completely. That is, you can make Windows 10/11 completely quiet on the Internet — if you want to.

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