Ensure your PC boots safely before Secure Boot changes.

Secure Boot has relied on the same security certificates to verify bootloaders since 2011, during the development cycle for Windows 8. But those original certificates are set to expire in June and ...

Windows 11 is refreshing Secure Boot keys in 2026. Here's why TPM-WMI Event ID 1801 appears, and how to verify the new certificate.

That's less time spent looking at yourself in the screen.

Booting from CD is one of those computer functions that everyone seems to assume you know how to do. Watch this video, then read this quick tip, and you too will know. You may be able to just boot ...

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 ...

Safe Mode is a lightweight version of the Windows operating system that you can use to troubleshoot the computer when the operating system fails to boot. However, if Safe Mode doesn't work, you must ...

Until I upgraded my computer, I was struggling with this problem also: how to make my computer boot faster. It took ages for it to boot up, and as I later learned, it was because all of the programs I ...

How fast will future PCs boot up? I asked tech experts to explain what the industry is doing to achieve start-up times in under 10 seconds. Brooke Crothers Former CNET contributor Brooke Crothers ...

Computers are indispensable business tools, if they are working properly. Many small businesses can't justify the expense of a full-time IT position, so the job of trying to get a non-booting computer ...

Back in the old days of 2010, I used to walk into my home office in the morning, hit the power button on my production system, and then head back upstairs to have breakfast. By the time I returned to ...