One of those was UEFI Secure Boot, a mechanism for verifying PC bootloaders to ensure that unverified software can’t be loaded at startup. Secure Boot was enabled but technically optional for Windows ...

In this post, we will show you multiple methods to enable or disable Windows Boot Manager on Windows 11/10. Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR) is one of the main components of the Windows OS that ...

Secure Boot helps keep your computer safe by using trusted certificates in UEFI firmware. It checks bootloaders and prevents dangerous applications from running before Windows starts. Through Secure ...

Microsoft is reminding users that the Secure Boot ecosystem will soon require a mandatory check-up. The Redmond-backed security protocol, part of the UEFI specification and primarily ...

This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

Microsoft has linked recent reports of Windows 11 boot failures after installing the January 2026 updates to previously failed attempts to install the December 2025 security update, which left systems ...