Rufus 4.6 (beta) is the new version of one of the best image “burners” for creating operating system installation media. And especially Windows, where in our opinion it is the best, both for creating standard media and those that allow “skip” the requirements hardware minimums and other features required by Microsoft.
Microsoft updated its media creation assistant last week Media Creation Tool (MCT) to facilitate the installation of Windows 11 2024 Update (Windows 11 24H2). It is one of the recommended methods for Windows installations, but it only works with systems that are officially licensed and that meet all the requirements, hardware and others.
And what happens with the rest of the teams? Microsoft, without changing the official hardware requirements, has modified some parameters in the latest version of Windows (mainly for older CPUs) that complicate the use of those scripts, registry modifications or third-party applications such as Rufus that allowed requirements to be skipped.
Rufus 4.6, news
The new version of Rufus is in beta, but now allows you to skip some of those requirements hateful that Microsoft imposes. And we are not talking about the reasonable ones such as the increase in RAM that modern Windows are crying out for.
No, we are talking about issues that have become an obsession in Redmond, such as the use of Microsoft ID accounts and limiting local ones, which is what the vast majority of users want. One of the new features of Rufus 4.6 makes it easier to use by any user and in Pro and Home editions, but there are other changes of interest:
- Setting local account passwords to not expire by default
- New setup.exe to bypass Windows 11 24H2 local update restrictions.
- Time zone for replication of regional options.
- Fixed a bug when trying to write compressed VHD images (for use in virtual machines)
- Improved checking of revoked UEFI bootloaders to support Linux SBAT, Windows SVN, and DBX cert.
Rufus 4.6 (Beta) It is available on their website for Windows x64 platforms. The new version for ARM will be released later. Like all the previous ones, it is totally free and open source.
Finally, say that this version does not eliminate new CPU instruction set requirement (PopCnt and SSE4.2) for older CPUs added by Microsoft. Rufus author Pete Batard says he won’t do it until Microsoft provides thebypasses:
«I don’t plan to do it. If the official bypasses that Microsoft allows don’t work, it’s Microsoft’s problem, not mine. Rufus works within the Microsoft framework, with bypasses that Microsoft included for the installer, and therefore, as has been the case since the release of Windows 11, I hope that the bypasses that Microsoft allows do not leave a machine inoperative, and I also hope that Microsoft filter the bypasses that do, such as PopCount/SSE4.2».
Source: www.muycomputer.com
