For any PC to start and show you a working environment or operating system to let you work, it must have a bootable device. The bootable device holds the operating system, Windows 11. If a PC fails to ...

If you would like to deactivate the Advanced Boot Options menu and return to the standard Windows 10 or Windows 11 boot procedure, issue this BCDedit command from a system administrator level command ...

Windows boots slower than it needs to, but not because of your drive.

Microsoft has started automatically replacing expiring Secure Boot certificates on eligible Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 systems. Secure Boot is a security feature that blocks malicious software (like ...

Windows will now tell you if Secure Boot is working properly. The new status indicates whether you have the latest Secure Boot updates. The April Windows update also patches a whopping 164 security ...

Dual-booting Windows editions is a tradition that goes quite far back. It lets you experience new Windows versions and old Windows versions together on the same hard drive of a PC or laptop. Dual ...

Secure Boot protects modern Windows and Linux PCs. Microsoft Secure Boot certificates from 2011 expire in June and October 2026. Most PC owners are fine if they install the latest updates. Last year's ...

In June 2025, Microsoft announced that, in June 2026, it would begin deprecating Secure Boot certificates of Windows systems from 2011, which were superseded by their 2023 counterparts. As the clock ...

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 ...