Functions that Boxstarter uses to customize the windows environment.

Boxstarter's Bootstrapper module provides a PowerShell wrapper that supports reboots and automatic logons and exposes commands that can detect pending reboots, perform logging and messaging, and several commands that can configure various windows settings.

Boxstarter's HyperV module includes functionality for targeting Hyper-V guest VMs with the ability to automatically configure them for remote installation and to create or restore snapshots at installation time.

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. It can be especially useful for cases where: - you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.) - you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed - you need to flash a B... More information

Boxstarter's Azure module includes functionality for targeting Azure VMs with the ability to save and restore checkpoints leveraging blob snapshots.

Etcher is a powerful OS image flasher built with web technologies to ensure flashing an SDCard or USB drive is a pleasant and safe experience. It protects you from accidentally writing to your hard-drives, ensures every byte of data was written correctly and much more. ## Features - Validated Burning No more writing images on corrupted cards an... More information

UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file. [Development guide](https://sourceforge.net/p/unetbootin/wiki/development/)

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool utility will format any USB flash drive, with your choice of FAT, FAT32, or NTFS partition types. You can also make the disk bootable by specifying a file location.HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool utility will format any USB flash drive, with your choice of FAT, FAT32, or NTFS partition types. You can also make the ... More information

UltraISO is an ISO CD/DVD image file creating/editing/converting tool and a bootable CD/DVD maker , it can directly edit the CD/DVD image file and extract files and folders from it, as well as directly make ISO files from your CD/DVD-ROM or hard disk. At the same time, you can maintain the ISO bootable information, thus creating your own bootable... More information

boot2docker is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Tiny Core Linux made specifically to run Docker containers. It runs completely from RAM, weighs ~27MB and boots in ~5s (YMMV). Docker - An open platform for distributed applications for developers and sysadmins.

 SARDU MultiBoot Creator is a useful application designed to help you create an emergency rescue CD or USB drive. These drives can be used to check and to repair your system in case of a failure. Most computer users have dealt with a situation when the computer simply cannot st... More information

Boot is a Clojure build framework and ad-hoc Clojure script evaluator. Boot provides a runtime environment that includes all of the tools needed to build Clojure projects from scripts written in Clojure that run in the context of the project. **This package is self-updating.**

Many system developers complain about repetitive settings of their testing Windows workstations to make them usable for testing software. Number of dialogs you need to go through is bigger on Windows Vista or newer, where the necessary dialogs are often hidden one level deeper than in Windows XP. BellaVista is a tool that gathers necessary settings... More information

A simple yet effective reboot helper tool. iReboot sits in your taskbar at startup (only taking up 400KB of memory!) and lets you choose which operating system you want to reboot into. Instead of pressing restart, waiting for Windows to shut down, waiting for your BIOS to post, then selecting the operating system you want to boot into (within th... More information

Dable is simple and elegant. It has ZERO dependencies and works in IE 8+

The Windows® Performance Toolkit consists of two independent tools: Windows® Performance Recorder (WPR) and Windows® Performance Analyzer (WPA). In addition, support is maintained for the previous command-line tool, Xperf. However, Xperfview is no longer supported. All recordings must be opened and analyzed by using WPA.

dotNetInstaller enables the developer to define the application prerequisites and install the correct version(s) of these components in a predictable order based on the processor architecture, user operating system type and language, allow the user to download these components from the web, install these components directly from a single packaged s... More information

![Screenshot of Grub2Win] (https://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/grub2win/screenshots/Install%201J.jpg) ** All Executables are SSL Signed for your protection ** Grub2Win supports 64 and 32 bit EFI and BIOS on Windows 10, 8, 7 and XP. Safely dual boot Windows and Linux from GPT or MBR disks. Grub2Win boots native GNU Grub version 2 code. Everything is... More information

 I have been playing with pxe booting for a while, first starting with pxelinux, then gpxe and lately with ipxe. I am mostly a windows user and as an IT often needs a quick (=no install) and portable (=run from USB) dhcp server including a tftp server a... More information

Enumerate the list of file rename and delete commands that will be executed the next boot. There are several applications, such as service packs and hotfixes, that must replace a file that's in use and is unable to. Windows therefore provides the MoveFileEx API to rename or delete a file and allows the caller to specify that they want the operatio... More information

RawWrite (or rawrite) is an essential tool for creating boot disks and other floppy disk images. Traditional rawwrite programs do not run under modern versions of windows so here is the Win32 version which does. Reads 1.44Meg Floppy Disks Writes 1.44Meg Floppy Disks

 ##A free tool attached with AOMEI Backupper Boot multiple client computers within same LAN through the network booting from an image file on a server computer for system maintenance and optimization. ###Overview of AOMEI PXE Boot Tool The main... More information

 ###AutoBootDisk ​No more prolonged Google Searches. ​No more annoying waits. ​Everything is in one application. ​Clean UI ​AutoBootDisk is a new alternative bootable USB Loader program. It is 1.5 times f... More information

 ##Visual BCD Editor - graphical bcdedit utility for Windows 7 to Windows 10 * easy BCD edit * structured view of complete BCD * create and edit every BCD option Visual BCD Editor is an advanced graphical user interface (GUI) version of Windows bcdedit utility. It is... More information

WINGRUB is an GUI utility intends to help configuring and installing GRUB for DOS in the WINDOWS environment GRUB for DOS is the dos version of GRUB. It enables dos users to run the configuration console directly in real mode. GNU GRUB (short for GNU GRand Unified Bootloader) is a boot loader package from the GNU Project. GRUB is the reference i... More information

grubinst is an GUI utility intends to help configuring and installing GRUB for DOS in the WINDOWS environment GRUB for DOS is the dos version of GRUB. It enables dos users to run the configuration console directly in real mode. GNU GRUB (short for GNU GRand Unified Bootloader) is a boot loader package from the GNU Project. GRUB is the reference ... More information