Remember the HiRen's boot CD?
This was a self booting Windows OS project that booted the OS directly from CD and contained a lot of utilities, tools and hardware drivers. It was very useful for testing, diagnosing and repairing a PC. Fixing HD issues, removing malware and viruses and running benchmarks.
There haven't been any official HiRen's releases since 2012, but I just discovered the community decided to resurrect the project recently. It now runs a self booting Windows 10 64bit PE (preinstallation environment).
They seem to be keeping it fairly up to date which is useful for virus and malware removal.
https://www.hirensbootcd.org/
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I downloaded Hirens Boot CD back in 2011 and I still use it a lot with older computers. I particularly like the Mini-XP, although the Mini-98 and Mini Linux are handy too.
I'll have to give the new version a go sometime as it will probably be much more useful for newer machines.
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I finally downloaded the new Hirens image last night and copied it onto a USB flash drive.
Windows 10 boot pretty quickly, and compared to regular Windows 10, it actually seems quite usable.
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