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Alejandro Armas — known on GitHub as mycroftsnm — has released a compact collection of five boot-time UEFI games that force a simple choice every time you start a PC: win, and the machine continues to boot; lose, and it shuts down. The project, published as the UEFIGame repository, bundles a mix...

Canonical's security team has disclosed CVE-2025-2486, a firmware-level issue in Ubuntu's edk2 packages that left the UEFI Shell accessible inside AAVMF (the ARM64 QEMU UEFI binary) even when Secure Boot was enabled — a configuration that can permit Secure Boot bypasses in affected virtualized...

Creating a reliable bootable USB drive starts with a simple fact: the process will erase the target device, and doing it the easy way today can save hours of headache tomorrow. This article distills the quick tips from the supplied guide into a practical, verified, and safer playbook for making...

Microsoft has opened the conversation: an Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) session on December 10 will walk IT teams through the new Secure Boot playbook and the practical steps required to update expiring Secure Boot certificates before they begin to lapse in June 2026. The conversation matters...

I noticed my PC was taking longer to reach the desktop, and the culprit turned out not to be Windows at all but the firmware stage—what Task Manager calls the Last BIOS time—a small number that can add seconds (or more) to every cold boot and points to fixes that live inside your motherboard’s...

Microsoft has warned that the Secure Boot certificates first deployed in 2011 will begin to expire in mid‑2026, and organizations that don’t update their trust chain risk losing the ability to receive security fixes for pre‑boot components — and in rare, poorly‑prepared environments, may...

Microsoft’s move to a stricter hardware baseline for Windows 11 means upgrading is no longer a simple checkbox — it’s a decision that touches security, firmware, and long-term support, and verifying your PC’s readiness is the single most important step before you click “Install.” Background /...

Keeping firmware current is one of the single most important — and least visible — tasks for desktop and laptop fleet managers preparing for Windows 11 deployments, firmware-driven security features, and long-term platform stability. This article gives practical, repeatable methods for IT teams...

The tools and knobs you need to avoid a mid‑2026 Secure Boot disruption are now available — but this is not a “set it and forget it” operation. Organizations must inventory, pilot, coordinate with OEMs, and execute a staged rollout to ensure UEFI Secure Boot trust anchors are rotated to the 2023...

If Battlefield 6 greets you with a hard-stop message saying “Secure boot must be enabled”, the fix is almost always a firmware and boot‑layout configuration task — not the game itself — and it can be completed safely if you follow a validated sequence of checks, conversions, and firmware...

Many Windows 10 PCs flagged as “incompatible” can be upgraded to Windows 11 by flipping a few firmware switches — most commonly enabling UEFI/GPT, Secure Boot, and a motherboard TPM (or firmware TPM / Intel PTT) — and, when those options aren’t available, using a well‑known installer workaround...

Secure Boot is the firmware-level gatekeeper that stops unsigned and tampered code from running before Windows starts — enabling it is one of the single most effective steps you can take to harden a Windows 11 PC at boot time. Background / Overview Secure Boot is part of the UEFI firmware...

If your PC shows promise but refuses a Windows 11 upgrade or a new multiplayer title at launch, the problem is often firmware settings — specifically Secure Boot. This UEFI feature is now a gating factor for Microsoft’s Windows 11 baseline and for an increasing number of anti‑cheat systems, so...

Trojan injection. It's showing some kind of network shared drive. Only local drives can be used for System Protection/Restore. I have Antivirus ESET NODE32. It (Windows App Compatibility/Reputation based) tried to prevent me from installing ClamAV. There's no partition repair, Disk Doctor...

With Windows 10 reaching end of support and Windows 11’s hardware baseline enforced across upgrades and some modern games, checking whether Secure Boot is enabled — and enabling it correctly if it isn’t — has moved from optional housekeeping to an essential step for many PC owners and gamers...

Secure Boot is a firmware-level guardrail that prevents unsigned or tampered boot components from running, and checking whether it’s enabled — and turning it on safely — is a small set of Windows checks plus careful UEFI (BIOS) changes when required. Background / Overview Secure Boot is part of...

Enterprise IT teams and power users managing Windows 11 fleets now have multiple, repeatable ways to reach a PC’s firmware settings — from in‑OS advanced startup flows and a one‑line shutdown command to the traditional hotkey windows that manufacturers still expose at POST — and building a...

EFI is the small, pre‑OS layer that brings your PC hardware to life and hands control to Windows, replacing the decades‑old BIOS with a faster, more secure, and far more flexible pre‑boot environment that modern Windows installs require. Background / Overview The Extensible Firmware Interface...

I silenced the Xbox Ally’s sword‑clang boot sound within minutes — and if you own an ASUS ROG Xbox Ally or Ally X, you can too. The handheld’s BIOS and Armoury Crate SE both expose quick, user‑accessible controls for the startup audio and animation, but the exact route is easy to botch if you...

If your Windows 10 PC is being told it’s “ineligible” for Windows 11, the fix may be a single BIOS/UEFI switch — enabling your machine’s TPM (Trusted Platform Module) support — and in many cases that alone will make the system eligible for the free Windows 11 upgrade before Windows 10 support...