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1. Wintousb alternatives install#
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4. Wintousb alternatives windows 10#
5. Wintousb alternatives software#

It is possible to run commands via Win-R. If Win-I failed to work by itself, I found that I could get it to work if I hit Win-R-I.Ĭommands in this post are shown in italics. The Windows key was the key with the Windows logo on it, typically located near the lower left (and, at least on desktop keyboards, also near the lower right) corner of the keyboard. So, for example, Win-I means hold the Windows key and hit the I key, and Win-R means WinKey-R. In this post, I refer to the Windows key (sometimes called WinKey) as simply Win.

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I was reminded that this was not my normal Win10 installation only when I went looking for a program or a configuration that I had not yet set up on this USB drive - and I minimized those by including a folder full of portable versions of commonly used programs, so that I could run those without installing them.

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Performance felt the same as when I booted Windows 10 from the SSD inside this computer: I experienced no delays at all - not in Opera, and not when adding or viewing tabs in the other browsers.

At times, I also had up to three separate DoubleKiller processes running, each comparing files in two separate drives or folders. There were also more than 60 background processes running, according to Task Manager. In addition to Opera, I was running Chrome with about 20 tabs open and Firefox with a dozen tabs open, along with Bitdefender antivirus.

For instance, I was writing these words in the Opera browser, on a Windows 10 system running from a 64GB Samsung MUF-64AB/AM FIT Plus USB drive that was now available for $17, plugged into a USB 2.0 (not 3.0) port on the front of my relatively powerful desktop computer. With a reasonably capable USB drive and a strong computer, performance may not be an issue.

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Linux bootable USB tools might not be able to access files that were encrypted using Windows-only tools, or to run Windows software that could work with files on that machine without moving them elsewhere. Sometimes the easiest if not the only way to access that data might be to boot that computer using an OS on a USB drive. It might be inconvenient if not impossible to remove that data drive and connect it to another computer.

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When Windows was configured to a user’s preferences, it would be a waste of time and effort to go through the same steps all over again, to install and configure it on another computer.When using someone else’s unsecured computer (i.e., one that allows USB booting), it could be handy to be able to run your own system and its programs, configured in your own preferred way.Likewise, whenever there was a risk of computer theft, the user could cut his/her potential losses by keeping everything on a USB drive in his/her pocket, rather than on a drive inside the computer. It could be advantageous, in that sort of situation, to be able to hide or carry away the USB drive containing the OS. An example arose in the case of the Evil Maid attack (see my post on Windows 10 security), where a laptop had to be left in an office, hotel room, or other place vulnerable to a third party who wanted to install a keylogger or other spyware, or who had obtained a password and who planned to use it to retrieve sensitive data. For security purposes, it could be easier to maintain physical control over the location of a USB drive running Windows 10 (which could fit in purse or pocket) than over the location of an entire computer.This sort of device could be very useful. This post discusses the option of configuring a USB drive that can run Windows 10. A later post describes the only free solution I found in mid-2023. That section lists several paid solutions that were reportedly capable of producing a bootable Win10 USB drive.

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The Update section, at the end, describes a different procedure that I used for a while after that. Note: most of this post describes a procedure that stopped working for me at some point.