Rufus Portable 1.3.2 (format and create bootable USB drives) Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on January 28, 2013 - 5:26pm

logoRufus Portable 1.3.2 has been released. Rufus Portable is a USB formatting utility which also can create a bootable USB drive using a bootable ISO image. This app requires admin rights. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.

Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.

Features

ScreenshotRufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. It can be be especially useful for cases where: you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.); you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed; you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS; you want to run a low-level utility. Rufus is significantly faster than similar utilities and it's open source and free.

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PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

Rufus Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

Rufus Portable is available for immediate download from the Rufus Portable homepage. Get it today!

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siegfried

January 29, 2013 - 1:47am

It writes to registry and filesystem ("add" means "added"); tested on Win7ProSP1 64bit, admin account:

- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\Status\GPExtensions\ add
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\Status\GPExtensions\{35378EAC-683F-11D2-A89A-00C04FBBCFA2}\ add
- ForceRefreshFG REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0) add
- LastPolicyTime REG_DWORD 0x01097abb (17398459) add
- PrevRsopLogging REG_DWORD 0x00000001 (1) add
- PrevSlowLink REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0) add
- RsopStatus REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0) add
- Status REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0)

- c:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\GPT.INI 2013-01-29 06:45.26 127 ---A-- add
- c:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\ add
- Registry.pol 2013-01-29 06:45.26 150 ---A-- add
- c:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\User\ add

- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\Status\GPExtensions\ add
-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\Status\GPExtensions\{35378EAC-683F-11D2-A89A-00C04FBBCFA2}\ add
- ForceRefreshFG REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0) add
- LastPolicyTime REG_DWORD 0x01097abb (17398459) add
- PrevRsopLogging REG_DWORD 0x00000001 (1) add
- PrevSlowLink REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0) add
- RsopStatus REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0) add
- Status REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0) add

Thanks

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Ken Herbert

January 29, 2013 - 2:16am

Those entries are not created by the app.

They are changes made by Windows itself, and can potentially be linked to any locally installed or portable app. Since they don't even contain human-readable references to Rufus they could have been automated changes completely unrelated to Rufus that just happened to be made while you had it running.

We do allow filesystem and registry changes that are caused by something other than the app in question, even when it is directly related to the app (eg. many antivirus and firewall software write registry entries that reference the app they are checking, blocking or allowing) plus there is absolutely no way to handle everything Windows records about the apps run on it without destroying other data as well.

siegfried

January 29, 2013 - 3:11am

winterblood wrote:
> Those entries are not created by the app.

No, they're created by Rufus, I tried many times (deleted manually and then recreated by Rufus on restart); check yourself.

> They are changes made by Windows itself, and can potentially
> be linked to any locally installed or portable app.

No, wait: You're referring to registry keys or filesystem folders intrinsic to the functioning of Windows, e.g:
temp folders, VirtualStore (%appdata%\Local\) folder, Thinstall (%appdata%\Local\ and %appdata%\Roaming) folders, Recent folder, or Regedit Keys like RecentDocs, BagMRU, Count, CIDSizeMRU, Muicache, bags, Tracing (RASAPI32/RASMANCS), Spoon/Xenocode (sandboxcache), etc, but instead I'm talking about folders and reg keys created by a specific program (Rufus).

Bye

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Ken Herbert

January 29, 2013 - 4:43am

I have tested, and while I do get those results, the actual key path \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\ coupled with RegFromApp returning none of those registry entries as being created by Rufus itself indicates to me that Rufus is asking Windows Group Policy manager for elevated privileges, which is creating those keys at the request of Rufus.