Secure Boot is a Windows security feature that most people don't even know they have enabled. It protects your PC from malware before the machine fully boots, but that level of security can cause some ...

Find the Secure Boot option and change it to Disabled. Save the changes and reboot again. We recommend keeping Secure Boot enabled unless you're sure it needs to be disabled. This article explains how ...

Secure Boot certificates protect your PC’s startup process, but the original ones from 2011 are set to expire in June, so Microsoft plans to roll out a Secure Boot status dashboard in Windows to help ...

A major change is coming to Windows that neither individual users nor IT admins can ignore. Here’s how to prepare. Microsoft is preparing to make a significant change to the Secure Boot system in ...

Windows 8 is remembered most for its oddball touchscreen-focused full-screen Start menu, but it also introduced a number of under-the-hood enhancements to Windows. One of those was UEFI Secure Boot, a ...

Microsoft just pushed the Secure Boot 2023 certificate update to all eligible Windows 11 and Windows 10 computers, just in time given that old certificates were due to expire today. It’s a good thing, ...

Some of the most common causes for Windows 11 upgrade failure are incompatible hardware or firmware. With hardware, it's usually the CPU that's incompatible. With firmware, the issue could be Unified ...

In brief: Secure Boot was originally introduced with Windows 8 as a firmware-based security feature designed to protect the OS from potentially malicious boot code. After more than 15 years, the ...

On June 24th, several older Microsoft certificates expired, meaning that many Windows 10 and 11 users need to update their computers. Without properly updated certificates, Windows Secure Boot will ...

The big picture: The original Secure Boot certificates Microsoft issued in 2011 for Windows devices began expiring last week, and new BIOS firmware is being rolled out by PC OEMs to keep Windows ...

Microsoft has already started rolling out the replacement Secure Boot certificate chain that Windows will need once the original 2011 certificates begin expiring in June 2026. Notebookcheck recently ...

Back in the late 2000s, computer firmware was moving from legacy BIOS to UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). Alongside it came Secure Boot. This Microsoft-supported security mechanism ...