Windows 8 is remembered most for its oddball touchscreen focused full screen Start menu , but it also introduced a number of under the hood enhancements to Windows. One of those was UEFI Secure Boot, a mechanism for verifying PC bootloaders to ensure that unverified software cant be loaded at startup. Secure Boot was enabled but technically optional for Windows 8 and Windows 10, but it became a formal system requirement for installing Windows starting with Windows 11 in 2021 . Secure Boot has...
