PLoP Boot Manager Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to PLoP Boot Manager for Windows and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is GRUB, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to PLoP Boot Manager and 18 are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to PLoP Boot Manager are EasyBCD, rEFInd - Boot Manager, EasyUEFI and GRUB4DOS and WINGRUB.

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PLoP Boot Manager

Free • Open Source
Boot Manager

Mac
Windows
Linux

The PLoP Boot Manager is a small program to boot different operating systems. You can boot the operating systems from...

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GRUB
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Free • Open Source
Boot Manager
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Solaris
OpenSolaris
24 GRUB alternatives
GNU GRUB is a multiboot boot loader. It was derived from GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, which was originally designed and implemented by Erich Stefan Boleyn.
- - GRUB is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to PLoP Boot Manager.
- - GRUB is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to PLoP Boot Manager.
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GRUB Features
Customizable
Text-based
USB to NTFS
Zero configuration
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Most users think GRUB is a great PLoP Boot Manager alternative.
EasyBCD
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Boot Manager
Windows
20 EasyBCD alternatives
EasyBCD is NeoSmart Technologies multiple award-winning answer to tweaking Windows bootloader. With EasyBCD, almost anything is possible, e.g. to boot a Win7-VHD-image. Setting up and configuring Windows boot entries is simple, and there is no easier way to quickly boot right...
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EasyBCD Features
3 way sync
MBR
Support for Android Things
rEFInd - Boot Manager
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Free • Open Source
Boot Manager
Mac
Windows
Linux
9 rEFInd - Boot Manager alternatives
rEFInd is a fork of the rEFIt boot manager for computers based on the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) and Unified EFI (UEFI). Like rEFIt, rEFInd is a boot manager, meaning that it presents a menu of options to the user when the computer...
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EasyUEFI
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Freemium • Proprietary
Boot Manager
Windows
20 EasyUEFI alternatives
EasyUEFI owns comprehensive EFI/UEFI boot option management functions, such as create, delete, edit, clean up, backup and restore EFI/UEFI boot options, specifies an one-time boot entry for the next restart, or change EFI/UEFI boot order, all these operations done under Windows...
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EasyUEFI Features
Create bootable Image
Create UEFI bootable drive
GRUB4DOS and WINGRUB
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Free • Open Source
Boot Manager
Mac
Windows
Linux
17 GRUB4DOS and WINGRUB alternatives
GRUB for DOS is the dos extension of GRUB. It enables dos users to run the configuration console directly in real mode. The project also contains an utility called WINGRUB, an GUI intends to help configuring and installing GRUB in the WINDOWS environment.
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Discontinued
It was last updated in 2013.
Grub2Win
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Free • Open Source
Boot Manager
Windows
Linux
18 Grub2Win alternatives
Safely dual boot Windows and Linux without touching the Windows MBR.

Grub2Win installs to Windows 8, Windows 7, XP, 2000 or Vista. It boots native, open source GNU grub version 2.00 code. Everything is contained in one 7 MB directory on your Windows C: drive.

The simple Windows.
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Visual BCD Editor
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Free • Proprietary
Boot Manager
Windows
16 Visual BCD Editor alternatives
Visual BCD Editor - advanced GUI version of bcdedit utility. Automatic boot loader creation - Windows 7|Vista|XP|VHD. Fix boot manager and dual boot problems.
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Visual BCD Editor Features
1. No TrackingVisual BCD Editor will not track you or use your personal data.
2. Ad-freeVisual BCD Editor doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
3. PortableVisual BCD Editor can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Boot from USB without BIOS
VMLite VBoot
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Paid • Proprietary
Boot Manager
Windows
Linux
33 VMLite VBoot alternatives
VBoot allows you to boot a physical computer from a single virtual disk file in VHD/VMDK/VDI/Raw format. Each file contains a single operating system. It supports Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, 2003 Server, 2008 Server and Linux 2.6, 32- and 64-bit.
- - VMLite VBoot is the most popular commercial alternative to PLoP Boot Manager.
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VMLite VBoot Features
Boot from Virtual Disk
Super GRUB2 Disk
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Free • Open Source
Boot Manager
Windows
Linux
11 Super GRUB2 Disk alternatives
The primary purpose of Super GRUB2 Disk is to help you boot into an OS whose bootloader is broken. Second, and almost as important, is to be a tool to learn more about GRUB2 and the booting process.
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Gag
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Free • Open Source
Boot Manager
Mac
Windows
Linux
7 Gag alternatives
GAG (initials, in spanish, of Graphical Boot Manager) is a Boot Manager program. It's loaded when the computer is turned on and allows you to choose the operating system you want to use.
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Discontinued
The latest version (4.10) is from 2008.
Boot-US
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Boot Manager
Windows
2 Boot-US alternatives
Boot-US is an universal boot manager. It allows you to easily use of all your existing operating systems completely independent of each other. The boot manager can be comfortably installed directly under Windows.
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Boot-US Features
Technical versatility
Multi boot
Configure hidden partitions
BootIt Bare Metal
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Paid • Proprietary
Boot Manager
Windows
18 BootIt Bare Metal alternatives
BootIt Bare Metal is a boot manager and partition manager software utility. Whither you want to do non-destructive repartitioning or boot multiple operating systems, this is the product for you.
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BootIt Bare Metal Features
1. PortableBootIt Bare Metal can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Multi boot