>> Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Q: First, let me thank you for your great column and help to all of us non-techies out here. My Windows 10 desktop ...

Ensure your PC boots safely before Secure Boot changes.

If your computer is not booting with the two RAM sticks, the problem might be with your RAM sticks or the RAM slots. In this case, you can do one thing. Insert only one RAM stick at a time and start ...

Microsoft has made Windows 11 available for all users. Windows 10 users can upgrade their computers to Windows 11 for free, provided their computers meet the hardware requirements. One of these ...

Unless your computer is pretty old, it probably uses UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) to boot. The idea is that a bootloader picks up files from an EFI partition and uses them to start ...

Firmware, encryption, and filesystem traps that break dual 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 ...

If you have a bootable USB drive, you can boot your Windows 10 computer from the USB drive. The easiest way to boot from USB is to open the Advanced Startup Options by holding the Shift key when you ...

Microsoft says that a known issue will block Windows 10 from booting after trying to restore the system to a restore point created before installing a Windows 10 update. The issue affects all Windows ...