Rufus 4.14.2372 Beta

Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need! Oh, and Rufus is fast. For instance it's about twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool, on the creation of a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO (with honorable mention to WiNToBootic for managing to keep up). It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USBs from ISOs. A non-exhaustive list of Rufus supported ISOs is available here.

It can be especially useful for cases where:

• you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.)
• you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed
• you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
• you want to run a low-level utility

Rufus 4.14.2372 Beta changelog:

Windows User Experience improvements

• Add a "Quality of Life" option, to disable Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other Microsoft forced nuisances
• Add a Silent installation option, that automatically, and WITHOUT PROMPT, installs Windows on the first detected disk on the target platform
• Add an option to copy SkuSiPolicy.p7b to the ESP on installation (please refer to KB5042562 for more info)
• Add tooltips for all the dialog options

Other changes

• Add limited support for El-Torito UEFI image extraction (Mostly for Dell BIOS update ISOs)
• Improve error report when the user tries to use an image that resides on the target drive
• Improve the UEFI:NTFS partition label to make the install media more explicit during Windows Setup disk partitioning
• Improve support for Bazzite and other Fedora derivatives that don't follow EFI conventions
• Improve detection and exclusion of the new Bitdefender hidden VHDs (#2953)
• Fix potential errors during creation of Windows To Go media, due to the use of new versions of bcdboot (#2940)
• Fix errors with local accounts that start or end with whitespaces (#2950)

Download: Rufus 4.14 Beta | 1.9 MB (Open Source)
Links: Rufus Home Page | Project Page @GitHub | Screenshot

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