I distinctly remember around 20 years ago pressing the start button on my beige Windows XP desktop and waiting three or four minutes for it to fully boot. I was always so excited to get on my PC and ...

Microsoft is rolling out "Secure Boot Allowed Key Exchange Key (KEK) Update," which requires a system reboot to finish ...

Microsoft confirms systems without updated Secure Boot certificates will boot normally but lose some security protections.

A series of Windows 11 boot issues reported by users seems to have a root cause that stems from a bad December software update that was pushed out. According to Microsoft, a bad January update ...

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that, in June 2026, it would begin deprecating Secure Boot certificates of Windows systems from 2011, which were superseded by their 2023 counterparts.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 has released the KB5074105 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 systems, which includes 32 changes, including fixes for sign-in, boot, and activation issues. KB5074105 is an optional ...

The boot issue, which Microsoft previously investigated and linked to failed December 2025 updates, affected a limited number of commercial Windows 11 devices running versions 25H2 and 24H2.

Microsoft is rolling out critical Secure Boot certificate updates to Windows 11 systems, with PCWorld reporting that current certificates expire in June 2026. Users must install quality updates and ...