Rufus fixes bugged Windows 11 system requirements bypass options and install issues

Rufus has resolved a couple of major issues regarding Windows 11 installation. There are also new features in the final release of version 4.15.

Recently Ventoy received its latest update to improve the app to deal better with the new Secure Boot changes. Following that, Rufus earlier today rolled out its own final release for version 4.15.

For anyone who may not be familiar, these are alternatives to Microsoft's official Media Creation Tool (MCT) that allows users to create bootable USB install media. The advantage for using these third-party alternatives is that they can let you bypass the Windows 11 installation restrictions, even enabling people to install the OS on completely unsupported and unfamiliar systems like the recent project we covered.

The new Rufus 4.15 final is based on the earlier beta release and fixes two major issues that came about with the earlier release. First up the software patches the Windows User Experience (WUE) persistence bug wherein the chosen installation settings, including for various requirements bypass, would fail to stay saved. Secondly the app update also resolves the silent installation issues where the progress would get stuck. There are upgrades as well.

The full chaneglog for the Rufus 4.15 final version is given below:

• Add RISC-V 64 support to UEFI:NTFS
• Improve the guards for using the "silent" Windows installation option
• Improve the ability to cancel during write retries
• Improve progress reporting for compressed image extraction
• Fix unrestricted XML entity expansion and integer overflow in ezxml parser
• Fix "silent" Windows installation failing at 75% in most cases
• Fix a crash during boot when using UEFI:NTFS on Snapdragon X based ARM64 platforms
• Fix first WUE option always being checked by default
• Fix an infinite loop when using Windows ISOs that contain multiple WIMs
• Fix "Enable runtime UEFI media validation" checkbox not always being properly enabled
• Other WUE improvements/fixes for OneDrive removal and username validation

To download the update head over to the official GitHub repo here.

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Posted Wednesday 1 July 2026 at 5:01 pm AEST (my time).

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