Enable or Disable Secure Boot on Windows 10 PC  

Stigg said:

Ah, so it only needs to be "Secure Boot Capable". I'll leave it off then.
And yes, it's a single user computer.


By the way... I remember seeing a movie like that.

I leave mine off because it interferes with my MR rescue thumb. Easy to turn on/off.

NMI said:

Link on first page appears to be broken:

Is there no tutorial on elevenforum about enabling secure boot?

Thank you. Broken link removed.

I added the link below for Windows 11, but I didn't have W11 tutorial for this since any W11 PC will have secure boot enabled by default since it's required.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/...f-843abef64fad

NMI said:

Thanks.

The last paragraph of your new link confirms that secure boot is not enabled by default or needed before installation of Windows 11, as the requirement is only that the PC has the capability.

Yeah, you'll need to enable secure boot if it not already from an older PC or motherboard. Usually, anything designed for W11 will have it enabled by default.

Mike100 said:

My Windows 10 PC had a mobo that did support TPM. A fresh copy of Windows 10 was installed when I built the PC, but I don't recall if Secure Boot was enabled.

The mobo recently died & was replaced it with a new one which also supports TPM. I swapped in the M.2 SSD which contains the Windows 10 OS and everything works.

Now I noticed Secure Boot is not enabled. Doing some searching shows conflicting comments/information whether or not it should be enabled before installing Windows 10.

Since the original mobo supported TPM and Windows 11, shouldn’t Secure Boot have been enabled from the beginning? And shouldn’t the new mobo have it enabled by default?

I saw a couple comments that if Secure Boot is enabled from the start, that the OS might not install or you might not be able to boot from a CD or USB. Could it be that my motherboards had it disabled to make sure Windows could be installed?

If enabled will this cause problems when booting AOMEI from a USB thumb drive when restoring a disk image?

Thanks

Hello Mike,

Windows 11 only requires the device (motherboard) be Secure Boot capable. Secure Boot doesn't have to be enabled unless wanted.

Enable or Disable Secure Boot in Windows 11 Tutorial | Windows 11 Forum

You'll be able to boot from the USB as usual.

Mike100 said:

Thanks -

I'm on Windows 10 but will enable Secure Boot.

I'm curious though, in the link provided there is a red warning message: "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." When would something like that usually occur?

Not sure. I've never not been able to re-enable Secure Boot.