How To Customize Hiren Boot Cd Using HBCD Customizer

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How to customize hiren boot cd using HBCD customizer

Hiren's Boot CD (HBCD) is a popular live CD that contains various tools for system recovery, backup, partitioning, antivirus, and more. However, you may want to customize it to add or remove some programs according to your needs. In this article, we will show you how to customize HBCD using HBCD customizer, a tool that allows you to modify the ISO image of HBCD and create a new bootable CD or USB.

What you need

A copy of HBCD ISO image. You can download it from [here].

A blank CD or USB drive with at least 700 MB of free space.

A tool to burn the ISO image to CD or USB. You can use [Rufus] for USB or [ImgBurn] for CD.

HBCD customizer. You can download it from [here].

The programs that you want to add or remove from HBCD. You can find some suggestions [here].

How to customize HBCD

Extract the HBCD customizer zip file to a folder on your hard drive.

Run the HBCDCustomizer.exe file as administrator.

Click on the Browse button and select the HBCD ISO image that you downloaded.

Click on the Extract button and wait for the process to finish. This will create a folder named HBCD in the same location as the HBCD customizer.

Open the HBCD folder and navigate to the Programs folder. Here you will see the subfolders for different categories of programs such as Antivirus, Backup, Disk Tools, etc.

To add a program, copy the executable file of the program and paste it in the appropriate subfolder. For example, if you want to add CCleaner, copy the CCleaner.exe file and paste it in the Disk Tools subfolder.

To remove a program, delete the executable file of the program from the subfolder. For example, if you want to remove Spybot, delete the Spybot.exe file from the Antivirus subfolder.

After you have added or removed the programs that you want, go back to the HBCD customizer and click on the Create ISO button.

Select a name and a location for the new ISO image and click on Save.

Wait for the process to finish. This will create a new ISO image with your customized HBCD.

Burn the new ISO image to a CD or USB using your preferred tool.

You can now boot from your customized HBCD and use it as you wish.

Conclusion

HBCD is a useful tool for system maintenance and troubleshooting, but it may not have all the programs that you need or want. By using HBCD customizer, you can easily customize HBCD and create your own version of it. This way, you can have a more personalized and efficient live CD that suits your needs.