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Revision as of 12:45, 13 August 2022 edit 81.101.239.152 (talk) Options to download Windows ISO images was introduced in Rufus 3.5, which the developer released in 2019. The ability to download Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11 ISO images was a welcome feature addition, as it made the process of creating Windows boot media more comfortable. The developer has added more features to Rufus in the meantime that improved the program for some Windows administrators and users significantly. Options to bypass Windows 11 system requirements during Inplace upgrade Tags: Reverted Visual edit ← Previous edit		Latest revision as of 20:35, 1 July 2024 edit undo PKalnai (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 606 edits Initial release displayed in the infobox
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Line 1: {{Short description\|USB drive software}} ~~{{COI\|date=October 2020}}~~ {{Infobox software \| name = Rufus \| logo = Rufus-logo.png <!-- Image name is enough --> \| logo alt = \| screenshot = Rufus ~~3.13.1730~~.png \| caption = Rufus 34.130.~~1730~~2035 \| screenshot alt = \| collapsible = \| developer = Pete Batard \| released = ~~<!--~~ {{Start date and age\|2011\|12\|04}} ~~-->~~ \| discontinued = \| latest release version = 34.205 \| latest release date = {{Start date and age\|~~2022~~2024\|0805\|0322\|df=~~yes~~no}} \| latest preview version = \| latest preview date = <!-- {{Start date and age\|YYYY\|MM\|DD\|df=yes}} --> \| programming language = [[C_(programming_language)\|C]]<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/tree/master/src \| title=Rufus source code \| website=[[GitHub]] \| access-date=2016-07-17}}</ref> \| operating system = [[Windows 78]] and later~~<ref>{{cite web \|title=Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way \|url=https://rufusdownload.com/ \|access-date=24 June 2018}}</ref>~~ \| platform = \| size = 1.34 MB<!-- Rufus 4.0.2035 download size --> ~~\| size =~~ \| language = Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese Brazilian, Portuguese Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese \| language count = 38 \| language footnote = <ref>{{cite web \| url=https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ#What_languages_are_natively_supported_by_Rufus \| title=List of languages supported by Rufus \| website=[[GitHub]] \| access-date=2017-05-17}}</ref> \| genre = [[Live USB]] \| license = [[GNU GPL 3\|GNU GPL 3+]]<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/blob/master/LICENSE.txt \| title=Rufus License \| website=[[GitHub]] \| access-date=2016-07-09}}</ref> \| alexa = \| website = {{URL\|https://rufus.ie/}} \| standard = \| AsOf = \| repo = {{URL\|https://github.com/pbatard/rufus~~/releases~~}} }} '''Rufus''' (The '''R'''eliable '''U'''SB '''F'''ormatting '''U'''tility, with '''S'''ource<ref name="introduction post">{{cite web \| url=http://pete.akeo.ie/2011/12/rufus-dos-bootable-usb-formatting.html \| title=Rufus introduction post \| date=14 December 2011 \| access-date=~~2016-07-09~~28 April 2023}}</ref>) is a [[free and open-source]] [[portable application]] for [[Microsoft Windows]] that can be used to format and create bootable [[USB flash drives]] or [[Live USB]]s. ==History== Rufus was originally designed<ref name="introduction post" /> as a modern [[Open-source software\|open source]] replacement for the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool for Windows,<ref>{{cite web \| url=http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.shtml \| title=HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool on Softpedia \| date=11 June 2014 \| access-date=2016-07-09}}</ref> which was primarily used to create DOS bootable USB flash drives. The first official release of Rufus, version 1.0.3 (earlier versions were internal/alpha only<ref name="changelog">{{cite web \| url=https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/blob/master/ChangeLog.txt \| title=Rufus Changelog \| website=[[GitHub]] \| access-date=2016-07-09}}</ref>), was released on December 1104, 2011, with originally only [[MS-DOS]] support. Version 1.0.4 introduced [[FreeDOS]] support and version 1.1.0 introduced [[.iso\|ISO]] image support. Until 1.2.0, two separate versions were provided, with one for MS-DOS and one for FreeDOS.<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://rufusdownload.com/downloads/ \| title=List of Rufus downloads \| access-date=2016-07-09 }}{{Dead link\|date=February 2022 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> [[Unified Extensible Firmware Interface\|UEFI]] boot support was introduced with version 1.3.2, [[Internationalization and localization\|localization]] with 1.4.0 and [[Windows To Go]] with 2.0. The last version compatible with [[Windows XP]] and [[Windows Vista\|Vista]] is 2.18, while the last version compatible with Windows 7 operating systems is Rufus 3.22, as Rufus 4.0 increased the minimum version requirement to require Windows 8 or later.<ref name="changelog"/> ==Features== Line 43: Rufus can also be used to compute the [[MD5]], [[SHA-1]] and [[SHA-256]] hashes of the currently selected image. Rufus is capable of downloading retail ISO DVD images of [[Windows 8.1\|]], various builds of [[Windows 10]] and [[Windows 711]] directly from [[Microsoft]]'s servers. This ISO download feature is available only if [[PowerShell]] 3.0 or later is installed, and 'Check for updates' is enabled in the program's settings (on first usage, Rufus prompts the user whether they want to enable the update check or not).<ref>[https://github.com/pbatard/Fido Fido: Full ISO Download Script (for Windows retail ISOs)]</ref><ref>[https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/Security#Remote_script_execution Rufus Security wiki page—Remote script execution]</ref> ==See also== Line 54: * {{Official website\|https://rufus.ie/}} [[Category:Portable software]] [[Category:Linux installation software]] [[Category:Live USB]]