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Woops. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/10/microsoft_secure_boot_ms16_100/ But no worries, Linux are having security problems also: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/10/linux_tor_users_open_corrupted_communications/

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (August 9, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow security feature bypass if an attacker installs an affected boot manager and bypasses Windows security...

Hi, my first post. Plus first time I have had a new win10 system fail with probably a hdd failure, so lots of learning new stuff etc regarding the manipulating EUFI options, GPT options etc. Anyway to cut to the quick, I have an old version of Hirens on flash drive, and the latest version on a...

Back in early August I was pleased to announce the Windows Insider release of Windows 10 IoT Core, a version of Windows 10 targeted towards small, embedded devices that may or may not have screens, and the response from you has been tremendous. We’ve received a lot of feedback that has helped us...

So I've been looking everywhere for this and in the end I still can't find rock-solid info. So I've just installed Windows 10 Pro in UEFI mode with Secure Boot enable and now I've got 4 partitions: Normally, I would just "ghost" my C partition and be done with it with Legacy boot but now with...

I just canceled my Windows 10 download request because of "Secure Boot." I find it's very disturbing to work under its conditions of inflexability. Without an option to select or deselect, Secure Boot is an irrational restriction on the individual. I hope enough people have enough gumption to...

I had 8.1 on my laptop but suddenly wouldn't boot "not recognised", online forum said change the "secure boot" and change the boot mode to "CSM boot" would fix it. This didn't work so download a recovery disk as I couldn't even boot my separate recovery drive on the laptop. I created a bootable...

Hello, I'm trying to disable UEFI on my computer. I did this on some other PC's and it all worked out fine, but I got stuck with this one. The BIOS does have a "secure boot", "fast boot", and "quiet boot" option, but even when I disabled them all I could still only boot into windows 8 (I'm...

Good Morning and hello to all, I have recently purchased an Asus with the following specs: Windows 8 x64 build 9200 Asus X102BA 1.0 SER and cHASSIS :DANocx509191425 Boot Mode UEFI with successful Secure Boot Windows 8 (x64) (build 9200) Install Language: English (United Kingdom)...

Hi I am having a issue dual booting windows 8.1 and 7 I upgraded from the windows store and I disabled secure boot and I put csm mode to boot into my usb drive and after that I clicked on the partition and it said that I cannot install windows the partition is of the style is gpt please help...

Revision Note: V1.0 (May 13, 2014): Advisory published. Summary: With this advisory, Microsoft is revoking the digital signature for four private, third-party UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) modules that could be loaded during UEFI Secure Boot. Continue reading...

Okay now I have an issue with windows, namely secureboot and UEFI. This is not for my computer but for my fathers machine. As an early birthday present I got my father a HP Pavilion laptop that came preinstalled with windows 8.1 but he didnt like it and wanted a dual boot. So I gave him Ubuntu...

Severity Rating: Revision Note: V2.0 (February 27, 2014): Revised advisory to rerelease update 2871690. The rereleased update addresses an issue where specific third-party BIOS versions did not properly validate the signature of the original update. Customers who have already successfully...

I'm hoping you guys can help a guy who knows just enough to get himself into trouble. I just bought the HP Envy 17t-j100 Quad Edition with the 1TB hybrid drive and the 240GB SSD Upgrade Kit that you can get on the Customize and Buy page. I wanted to put the OS onto the SSD because I haul my...

I'm hoping you guys can help a guy who knows just enough to get himself into trouble. I just bought the HP Envy 17t-j100 Quad Edition with the 1TB hybrid drive and the 240GB SSD Upgrade Kit that you can get on the Customize and Buy page. I wanted to put the OS onto the SSD because I haul my...

Windows 8 & 8.1 can be clean installed from a flash drive without any other software being needed. You just let the download create the flash drive and that's it. That worked last week on my desktop pc with a uefi. For my notebook, which doesn't have a optical drive. I copied my Windows 8 dvd on...

Hello To recover an image am I better off using the Windows PE 4.0 disc that is made with this 3rd party imaging program to recover an image or, enable legacy if I have it? Without legacy should I disable secure boot control and launch csm or use the disc I referred to? I would return all I...

My Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 mobo's U.E.F.I. version 2005 (current version) states Secure Boot is enabled. Msinfo32 state's it isn't in Windows 8.1 Pro w/Media Center x64. All software, driver's and U.E.F.I. are up to date. Any idea's on how to fix this ? This is after a clean install of 8 Pro...

On my computer there is a pre-installed Windows 8 which works fine for UEFI boot (Secure boot not necessary). Now when I switch in UEFI setup at boot time the UEFI mode into the CSM (BIOS) mode and restart then Windows 8 is not starting any more. As far as I find out an UEFI-based Windows 8...