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2. How to disable Secure Boot on your PC when you need to ... - AOL

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   You can disable Secure Boot by restarting your PC and opening the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).

3. UEFI - Wikipedia

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   When Secure Boot is enabled, it is initially placed in "setup" mode, which allows a public key known as the "platform key" (PK) to be written to the firmware. Once the key is written, Secure Boot enters "User" mode, where only UEFI drivers and OS boot loaders signed with the platform key can be loaded by the firmware.

4. Windows 8 - Wikipedia

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   In a post discussing secure boot on the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft developer Tony Mangefeste indicated that vendors would provide means to customize secure boot, stating that "At the end of the day, the customer is in control of their PC. Microsoft's philosophy is to provide customers with the best experience first, and allow them to ...

5. Intel Management Engine - Wikipedia

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   In November, System76 announced their plan to disable the ME on their new and recent machines which ship with Pop!_OS via the HAP bit. [94] In December, Dell began showing certain laptops on its website that offered the "Systems Management" option "Intel vPro - ME Inoperable, Custom Order" for an additional fee. Dell has not announced or ...

6. Trusted Platform Module - Wikipedia

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   A Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a secure cryptoprocessor that implements the ISO/IEC 11889 standard. Common uses are verifying that the boot process starts from a trusted combination of hardware and software and storing disk encryption keys.

7. Bundling of Microsoft Windows - Wikipedia

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   Concerns have been raised that OEMs might ship systems that do not allow users to disable secure boot or install signing keys for alternative operating systems. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Such computers would be unable to boot any non-Windows operating system (unless that operating system was signed and its keys included with the computer), [ 23 ] further ...

8. Safe mode - Wikipedia

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   Also, in a multi-boot environment with multiple versions of Windows installed side by side, the F8 key can be pressed at the OS selector prompt to get to safe mode. However, under Windows 8 (released in 2012), the traditional press-F8-for-safe-mode-options UI convention no longer works, and either Shift-F8 or a special GUI-based workaround is ...

9. BIOS - Wikipedia

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   Interpretation of data structures like partition tables and BIOS Parameter Blocks is done by the boot program in the boot sector itself or by other programs loaded through the boot process. A non-disk device such as a network adapter attempts booting by a procedure that is defined by its option ROM or the equivalent integrated into the ...