UEFI uses the GPT partitioning standard instead of the old MBR standard. This allows UEFI to boot from bigger drives of over ...

One of the options in Windows 11/10, is to boot into UEFI or BIOS. It works as follows: /fw – Combine with a shutdown option to cause the next boot to go to the firmware user interface.

This guide walks you through steps to help you mirror the Boot Hard drive on Windows (Legacy or UEFI). This is useful when the primary hard drive fails and will help you boot from the secondary drive.

If your PC runs Windows 10, you can ignore those pesky compatibility checks and upgrade to Windows 11. Here's how nearly two ...

This is where Secure Boot, a feature of the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), comes into play, providing a defense mechanism against unauthorized software being loaded during the boot ...

It seems like there are two camps, the small group of people who care about UEFI and everyone else who doesn’t really notice or care as long as their computer works. So let’s talk about what ...

The endless cat-and-mouse game between Microsoft and the community of devoted Windows hackers just took another turn.

PKfail could allow threat actors to bypass Secure Boot protections and plant undetectable UEFI malware on vulnerable systems, leaving users no way to defend or even discover the compromise. PKfail ...

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A supply chain failure that compromises Secure Boot protections on computing devices from across the device-making industry extends to a much larger number of models than previously known ...

Remote workers may no longer have to ship malfunctioning PCs back to the office to get them working thanks to out-of-band ...