UEFI game runs during boot; navigate a tunnel to hit 'Boot!' to load your OS. Touch a wall, and the PC powers off, making ...

I'm trying to make a reliable UEFI Secure Boot disk for any UEFI bootable system, for tech support purposes. I want to build a disk like the Falcon Four Boot CD (improved Hiren), but using Windows 10.

Following my recent posts concerning my experiences with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and secure booting, here's a Q&A with Mark Doran, the UEFI forum president. In general I agree ...

First off, a little context. I'm a 30+ year Mac user and I just bought my first PC in decades. I'm no stranger to Windows and Linux, but haven't used them as a desktop OS for about 15 years. My ...

Just before we start, you should know that this post is not about switching firmware modes. If you are planning to move from legacy BIOS to UEFI, you will have to use MBR2GPT Tool. So if you are in a ...

When installing a fresh copy of Windows 10, you typically use a USB flash drive to launch the "Windows Setup" wizard to continue with the installation process. However, on a device that has a Unified ...

If you are installing Windows 11/10 from scratch and no data is stored on any hard drive partition, you can delete all hard drive partitions and then try installing Windows. Sometimes, existing ...

Linux users may face yet another hurdle related to Secure Boot when the Microsoft-signed key used by many distributions to support the firmware-based security feature expires on September 11, leaving ...

Acer has fixed a high-severity vulnerability affecting multiple laptop models that could enable local attackers to deactivate UEFI Secure Boot on targeted systems. The Secure Boot security feature ...

Security researchers have disclosed a new Secure Boot bypass tracked as CVE-2025-3052 that can be used to turn off security on PCs and servers and install bootkit malware. The flaw affects nearly ...