Safe Mode lets Windows start with only essential drivers and services, allowing you to troubleshoot crashes, faulty drivers, ...

In June 2025, Microsoft announced that, in June 2026, it would begin deprecating Secure Boot certificates of Windows systems from 2011, which were superseded by their 2023 counterparts.

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 ...

Ensure your PC boots safely before Secure Boot changes.

Microsoft releases KB5077178, KB5077180, and KB5077374 with WinRE upgrades, Secure Boot updates, and Dynamic Setup improvements.

Microsoft this week released new dynamic updates for Windows 11 26H1, 25H2 and 24H2 under KB5077178, KB5077180, KB5077374, ...

Windows KB5077181 reportedly causes boot loops, SENS login errors, and DHCP internet failures, but there's a workaround ...

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

This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

Threat actors are exploiting security gaps to weaponize Windows drivers and terminate security processes, and there may be no ...

A 30-year PC building veteran, Zak is a modern-day Renaissance man who may not be an expert on anything, but knows just a little about nearly everything.

Catch up with this week's Microsoft stories in our weekly recap, including long-anticipated taskbar fixes in Windows 11, ...