Download Rufus 3.22

Version 3.22 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 3.22:

• Add SHA-1 and SHA-256 x86 acceleration on CPUs that support it
• Add an option to disable BitLocker device encryption in the Windows User Experience dialog
• Add a cheat mode (Ctrl-P) to preserve the log between sessions
• Fix potential media creation errors by forcing the unmount of stale WIM images
• Fix potential access errors in ISO → ESP mode by forcing Large FAT32 formatting
• Fix user-specified label not being preserved on error/cancel
• Fix some large SSD devices being listed by default
• Fix processing of Rock Ridge CE fields
• Work around the use of Rock Ridge symbolic links for Linux firmware packages (Debian)
• Remove the ISO download feature on Windows 7
• Note: This is the last version of Rufus that can run on Windows 7