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    Hiren's Boot CD PE

    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 lately downloaded WSCC7 which is supposed to be something like the Hiren's, but didn't install it yet, completely forgot about it.

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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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    I remember it well H.

    My high end Asus Z690 board want's to install drivers by default after a fresh installation of Win 10. - All very clever stuff for those who don't know where to start.
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