Create bootable, customizable USB Windows drives with Rufus

Rufus is an open-source program that creates bootable USB sticks for Windows installation and more. Compared to Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool, Rufus offers many more options for configuration setup. If you’re interested in such a program, we’ll show you how to use it.

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Why is Rufus better?

With the Media Creation Tool, Microsoft provides its own software to configure USB sticks for installing Windows 10 or 11.