Secure Boot is a feature of your computer's UEFI that only allows approved operating systems to boot up.

Over the past few days I have been installing Windows Updates on my two most recently acquired Windows 8 systems (see My New ASUS Laptop and My New Compaq Laptop). I had read several news items and ...

A Windows PC can spend anywhere from 10 to 20 seconds just booting up, and that’s assuming everything is working perfectly. While disabling unwanted startup apps can certainly reduce boot time and ...

This is not strictly a server-specific topic but this is something that probably becomes more of a problem with server and automated provisioning environments. Though in my case it's my home lab. Most ...

If you see the following screen when you start your Windows 11/10 computer, then this post will be able to help you. The screen is known to appear in HP PCs with UEFI and offers the option to fall ...

The following are the highlights — and lowlights — of my adventures over the past 36 hours or so with the new Compaq 15 laptop which I picked up recently, Windows 8.1 and UEFI BIOS/boot. I started ...

This is what you should do if your VirtualBox VM boots only in the UEFI Interactive shell. We talk about Windows and Linux ...

Black Ops 7 is set to launch on November 14, 2025, and this guide will ensure that your PC is ready to run Activision's ...

A newly discovered and previously undocumented UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bootkit has been used by attackers to backdoor Windows systems by hijacking the Windows Boot Manager since ...

Commercially developed FinFisher malware now can infect Windows devices using a UEFI bootkit that it injects in the Windows Boot Manager. FinFisher (also known as FinSpy and Wingbird) is a ...

The rare UEFI bootkit drops a fully featured backdoor on PCs and gains the ultimate persistence by modifying the Windows Boot Manager. A rare Windows UEFI bootkit malware has been discovered, offering ...