So, make sure to first backup any important files, or that the flash drive doesn't contain anything you want to keep. To make a bootable flash drive, all existing data on it will be wiped, and irrecoverable. (Enterprise HTAs and apps using the embedded browser control rely on IE's underlying rendering engine, ' Trident'.) The new, completely redesigned web browser bundled into the operating system is called ' Edge'. In Windows 10, Internet Explorer is only included for compatibility reasons. ie' domains for some of their classic browser's online marketing campaigns. Interesting factoid: because ' IE' is also the acronym for ' Internet Explorer', Microsoft has used '. Note that running Rufus requires elevated privileges. Save the file to your desktop (for example), it will be launched from there: nothing will be installed, and no changes will be made to Windows (like adding shortcut links, changing your homepage to a spammy site, or anything like that). Click the download link on (it's the official site - ' ie' is the internet country code for Ireland). No installer is needed for Rufus: you directly download the program executable. It takes about as long as creating the USB. In it, we use another freeware product to burn the Windows 10 Insider Preview ISO file onto a blank DVD. Tip: to use a CD or DVD instead, see our ' Create a bootable CD/DVD' tutorial instead. To make bootable media for Windows 10, you need a DVD or a USB drive ( 4Gb+). (It's the de-facto tool used for new users who want to try out a Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Mint as a ' live CD', or ' live USB' in this case.) Many Linux distros will fit on a regular CD. It's widely regarded as the fastest and most reliable way of creating bootable ISOs on Windows. The free, downloadable tool called 'Rufus' works on Windows XP and later, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. It will work whether your PC has USB 1.0 / 1.1 ports or USB 2.0 ports, no difference there.

Screenshots in this tutorial were taken on Windows 7 (which we used to create a Windows 10 bootable flash drive from the ISO disc image), but the steps are exactly the same on all recent versions of Windows.

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