Download Rufus 3.21

Version 3.21 of Rufus has been released. Rufus is a Windows program that can be used to create self-starting USB sticks. Useful, for example, to install an operating system, which is faster from a USB stick than from a CD or DVD, to update the BIOS or to access a system that no longer wants to start. There are a large number of tools that can be used to do this, but Rufus claims to be one of the fastest of its kind. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Changes in version 3.21:

• Allow the provision of an arbitrary local account username in the Windows User Experience dialog
• Improve Windows version reporting from ISO/.wim
• Update UEFI:NTFS‘NTFS drivers to v1.4 and exFAT drivers to v1.9
• Switch to remote download for nonstandard GRUB (Fedora 37, openSUSE Live, GeckoLinux)
• Fix UEFI:NTFS partition not being set in MBR mode for ISOs with a >4GB file (UwUntu)
• Fix GRUB support for Arch and derivatives, when a non FAT compliant label is used
• Fix incorrect detection of GRUB with nonstandard prefixes
• Fix tab order not working on the Windows User Experience dialog