Secure Boot is an industry standard for ensuring that Windows devices don’t load malicious firmware or software during the startup process. If you have it turned on—as you should in most cases, and it ...

Enter the UEFI utility to find the Secure Boot toggle This article describes how to enable Secure Boot to install Windows 11. The easiest way to enable Secure Boot is to do so through UEFI. It's ...

Motherboard maker MSI might have accidently disabled some secure boot features on more than 290 MSI motherboards. The changes will allow any operating system image to run regardless of whether it has ...

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Secure Boot has been a core part of PC motherboards for more than a decade -- MSI needed to be reminded of that. A security researcher recently discovered that MSI has released more than 300 ...

Among the requirements for installing Windows 11 are two security features: Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0 and Secure Boot. As we’ve documented before ...

Why it matters: Secure Boot is a technology designed to protect the PC boot chain and avoid running a tampered operating system. A firmware update released by MSI, however, changed the feature ...

This article describes how to enable Secure Boot to install Windows 11. How Do I Enable Secure Boot? The easiest way to enable Secure Boot is to do so through UEFI. It's typically listed as one of the ...

Enabling Secure Boot is an important step in upgrading to Windows 11, as it's part of the system requirements. It ensures that unauthorized software can't run on your ...

Eh, I don't think MSI made an unreasonable choice for their target market. It would be much less defensible if an OEM selling prebuilt PCs did the same. It would be nice if there was some kind of ...