Also known as the setting up phase, this is the second phase in the Windows upgrade process. During this phase, a backup of the downlevel OS is created to switch to the old OS if required. This ...

I distinctly remember around 20 years ago pressing the start button on my beige Windows XP desktop and waiting three or four minutes for it to fully boot. I was always so excited to get on my PC and ...

Nobody likes to wait around, and few things are more frustrating than your computer taking forever to boot. Not only can this affect your productivity, but it can also set a less-than-ideal tone for ...

How to add legacy Advanced Boot Options to Windows 10 or Windows 11 Your email has been sent Microsoft decided the Advanced Boot Options menu was no longer needed ...

Many Windows users occasionally encounter issues with their computers, such as misbehaving apps, strange glitches, or even more severe problems that prevent the system from starting correctly. In such ...

How to activate TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot in Windows 10 Your email has been sent While the most obvious changes coming with the release of Microsoft Windows 11 involve new graphics and an updated user ...

Windows 8 is remembered most for its oddball touchscreen-focused full-screen Start menu, but it also introduced a number of under-the-hood enhancements to Windows. One of those was UEFI Secure Boot, a ...

I always get a bit jittery whenever I hear of a new vulnerability that can enable a bypass of the Windows Secure Boot protections. I don’t really need to explain why, do I? Suffice to say, Secure Boot ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft released a patch to fix a Secure Boot bypass bug used by the BlackLotus bootkit we reported on in March. The original vulnerability, CVE-2022-21894, was patched in January ...