The BIOS menu is designed for advanced users, and it's possible to change a setting that could prevent your PC from starting correctly.

Be careful when changing BIOS settings.

After disabling Secure Boot and installing other software and hardware, you may need to restore your PC to the factory state to re-activate Secure Boot.

Set a Supervisor password by double-clicking on it. If that is the case, no need to panic just yet. Troubleshooting tip: Disable secure boot option disabled?Īs mentioned by some readers in the comments, if you are using an Acer laptop, you might see that option to disable secure boot has been greyed out. Press F10 to save the changes and exit the UEFI settings. Use the arrow key to go to Secure Boot option and then press enter to select it. Here, you’ll find Secure Boot option which is set to enabled. You can change various settings here but all we want to do right now is to disable secure boot option here.

Step 2: Disable secure boot in UEFIīy this time you must have been booted in to UEFI utility. Your system will restart now and when it boots again, you’ll find yourself in the BIOS/UEFI settings interface. It will notify that you’ll have to restart in order to change any UEFI firmware settings (or UEFI settings in short). When you see the UEFI Firmware Settings, click on it. If you see the UEFI Firmware Settings option, well, click on it. Some system may require you to choose an Advanced options. Now, some systems will give you the UEFI Firmware Settings on this screen. You have to click on Troubleshoot option. Click on Restart now buttonĪfter a few seconds, you should see a blue screen with a few options to choose from. Now, click on the Restart now button under Advanced startup option. Search for UEFI and go to Change advanced startup options in Windows menu. You can go to the firmware settings from within Windows as well. You may access the UEFI settings by powering on your system and using the F2/F10 or F12 keys at the boot time. Some systems don’t let you change the secure boot option without setting an admin password. All you have to do is to access the UEFI firmware settings, go to the Boot option and disbale it.ĭon’t worry. The good thing is that you can easily disable the secure boot. Sometimes, it may also create problems in dual booting with Linux. The downside of secure boot is that if you want to boot from a Linux USB or if you want to use a bootable Windows USB, it won’t allow that. This security feature prevents rootkit malware and provides an additional layer of security.

With UEFI comes the feature of “secure boot” which boots only those bootloaders that are signed in to UEFI firmware. Some Mac devices have been using UEFI for a longer time. UEFI is not something that Microsoft invented, instead it is a protocol existing even before Windows 8.

These days, if you buy a computer pre-installed with Windows, it comes with UEFI boot system.

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