How To Disable Uefi Secure Boot In Windows 10

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To make certain that Windows 11/10 remains safe from Malware, Microsoft enabled support for Secure Boot which works on elevation of UEFI. Secure Boot makes certain that when your PC boots upwardly, it but uses firmware that is trusted by the manufacturer. Yet, many a fourth dimension because of some hardware misconfiguration, you volition need to disable Secure Kick in Windows 11/ten.

If you lot are wondering what is UEFI, then it expands to Unified Extensible Firmware Interface and is the next generation of the popular BIOS. Information technology's secure, tin can hold more data, is much faster than BIOS, and is almost like a tiny operating system that runs on top of the PC's firmware, and it can practice a lot more than than a BIOS. The best function, information technology can exist updated by the OEM over Windows Update.

Information technology'due south because of UEFI, Windows 10 offers security features like Secure Kicking, Windows Defender Device Guard, Windows Defender Credential Baby-sit, and Windows Defender Exploit Guard. Beneath is a list of features y'all get:

Faster kicking and resume times.
Information technology easily supports large hard drives (more than 2 terabytes) and drives with more than than four partitions.
Support for multicast deployment, which allows PC manufacturers to broadcast a PC image that tin be received by multiple PCs without overwhelming the network or image server.
Support for UEFI firmware drivers, applications, and selection ROMs.

Disable Secure Kicking in Windows xi/10

But before you lot bound to disable Secure Boot, because you tin, let's find out if your PC has Secure Kicking.

Open up Windows Defender Security Center, and click on Device Security.

In the next screen if yous see Secure Boot mentioned, then your PC has it, else information technology doesn't. If it'due south available, you volition know if information technology actually turned on for your PC. We recommend yous turn it on.

If you desire to have Secure Boot on your PC, you will need to buy a new PC from the OEM which supports it.

Assuming, you have Secure Boot, and it'due south turned on, allow's effigy out how to disable information technology.

Brand sure to read our guide completely, especially this alarm bulletin.

Warning if you are disabling Secure Kicking

Later disabling Secure Boot and installing other software and hardware, information technology may exist hard to re-actuate Secure Boot without restoring your PC to the factory land. Also, be conscientious when changing BIOS settings. The BIOS menu is designed for advanced users, and it's possible to modify a setting that could forbid your PC from starting correctly. Be sure to follow the manufacturer's instructions exactly.

Go to Settings > Windows Update, and bank check if you lot take annihilation to download, and install. OEMs ship and update the listing of trusted hardware, drivers, and operating systems for your PC.
Once done, you need to go to the BIOS of your PC.
- Get to Settings > Update & Security > Recovery > Advanced Startup options.
- Then you click on Restart Now, it will reboot your PC, and offer you all these avant-garde options.
- Select Troubleshoot > Avant-garde Options.
- This screen offers further options which include Organization Restore, Startup repair, Go back to the previous version, Command Prompt, System Image Recovery, and UEFI Firmware Settings.
- Select UEFI Firmware Settings, and it will accept to the BIOS.
Every OEM has its own way of implementing the options. Secure Boot is commonly available nether Security / Boot / Authentication Tab.
Set it to Disabled.
Relieve changes and exit. The PC will reboot.

After this, you can change your graphics bill of fare or whatsoever other hardware which you lot believe is giving y'all trouble. Make sure to follow the same steps over again, and this time enables the Secure Boot.

Cannot re-enable Secure Boot

Equally mentioned above, if after disabling Secure Boot and installing other software and hardware, you might not exist able to re-enable Secure Boot without restoring your PC to the factory settings. Y'all tin still attempt the above-mentioned method and see if that works for you lot.

Hope this helps.

Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a 10-year Microsoft MVP (2006-16) & a Windows Insider MVP. Please read the unabridged mail & the comments first, create a System Restore Bespeak earlier making whatsoever changes to your system & be careful about any 3rd-party offers while installing freeware.