Open Source Windows Boot Software

Rufus is a standalone app designed to format and create a bootable USB drive for a large variety of ISOs. The app is just over 1MB in size and is notably faster than similar competitor apps such as the Windows 7 USB utility, Universal USB Installer, and UNetbootin. Rufus can come in handy when you need to simply format a USB drive, install an OS on a machine that lacks a CD/DVD-ROM drive, or when you need to boot an operating system temporarily without intentions of actually installing the media. This can be immensely useful while you're on the go or just need access to an OS for a temporary, isolated reason. The app can even be used to flash firmware to BIOS or other destinations by just using DOS. Even though Rufus is a tiny utility in comparison to other USB creation tools that can be rather bulky in size, it contends easily with the competition and creates bootable USB drives in record time!

Project has moved to https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader.

GAG is a graphical boot manager, designed to be easy-to-use and intuitive, but without loosing advanced features, like passwords or swapping drives.

Tool for creating live usb-drives and downloading distros. This is an upgraded version of Unetbootin focusing on Bittix linux 9 and above and Linux Mint and Linux Mint debian. Has Distrowatch.com link etc.

Startup Manager is a program that provides you the possibility to manage the Windows startup procedure. It offers you the possibility to control which programs automatically start up and more.

AiR-Boot is a x86 boot-loader that resides completely in track 0 of the harddrive. It‘s also independent of any OS, features a BIOS-like built-in setup, is localized to German, Dutch, French, Italian, Russian (including Cyrillic) and Swedish.

Cloudium OS is being written in pure ASM. It's designed for speed and ease, having cloud computing in mind. It also is secure (without requiring constant user input like Windows). But, how are we going to do this? Well every os wants/says these kind of things, so to accomplish our goals we follow these simple rules: keep it simple (that's way better then these complex interfaces etc. almost nobody wants), generalize (this makes things easier and more useful without extra complexity) and be inventive (sometimes doing it the classical way just doesn't work). Note: development peace will be temporarily lowered until February the fifth. Please check out our OS and Project site!

Smart, user-friendly and easy to use Shutdown Manager. Supporting English and German. When you find bugs or translating mistakes or when you have ideas what I could add please contact me at kontakt-kain.muell@t-online.de. IMPORTANT: I do not assume responsibility for damage to your computer before, during or after you have used my program! WICHTIG: Ich übernehme keine Haftung für Schäden bevor, während oder nachdem ihr mein Programm benutzt habt!

The FDOS Operaing System is 100% written in Assembler (NASM). It supports FAT 12, TSR and a small Multi Kernel System. The source is very good documentated (only in English). A German, russian and English Documentation (about 40 pages) are included.

yaMOS stands for: yet another "My Operating System". This is a hobby Operating System, let's see to what it develops... At the moment it's only a kernel written in C++ and Assemly.

Timer wakes up the computer from the shut down state using the BIOS clock and alarm time (RTC-Alarm). The computer is booted and a user program is started. A next wake-up (restart by BIOS) is programmed and Timer shuts down the computer again.

Minerva's primary goal is security. To allow all users to feel safe and secure but have the freedom to do what ever they want. We also want a fast easy way to bring every linux and windows o/s together.

watches for Regristry-changes of keys like HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun etc. and pops up if something has changed, logs it, can ask google for the key found. Protects against Trojans and Viruses.

ShutdownIt is a shutdown tool which can shutdown, restart, logoff, hibernate your pc. It can just remind you or let you start a program. Therefor you can select a countdown timer or a special time stamp.

Startup Commander is a program, that lets you choose which you want to run on system startup. You can create different profiles for different szenarios to minimize boot time. For example surfing, working, gaming.

Startzeit Messung - Measure of Booting Time - Display Starting Time

The Trion Object Oriented Operating system is an OS that is designed to meet the needs for the 21st century, with a kernel written in C++ and modelled in UML, and lots of features. The project is run by a team of OSDev.org community members.

WakeWorker is a freeware application which is intended to wake up your computer and then wake you with your favourite song. At the evening before sleep you can just set up alarm and song or you can predefine times and turn on repeat alarm and WakeWorker will wake up your computer and then you every predefined day at predefined time with your favourite song. Also you can set up that WW will turn your volume up.

A linux from windows installer, that is, an installer that runs on Windows and installs linux.