Windows 10: Check if Secure Boot is Enabled or Disabled in Windows 10

How to: Check if Secure Boot is Enabled or Disabled in Windows 10

How to Check if Secure Boot is Enabled or Disabled in Windows 10


Secure Boot is a security standard developed by members of the PC industry to help make sure that your PC boots using only software that is trusted by the PC manufacturer. Support for Secure Boot was introduced in Windows 8, and also supported by Windows 10.

When the PC starts, the firmware checks the signature of each piece of boot software, including firmware drivers (Option ROMs), EFI applications, and the operating system. If the signatures are good, the PC boots, and the firmware gives control to the operating system.

Secure Boot prevents a sophisticated and dangerous type of malwarecalled a rootkitfrom loading when you start your device. Rootkits use the same privileges as the operating system and start before it, which means they can completely hide themselves. Rootkits are often part of an entire suite of malware that can bypass local logins, record passwords and keystrokes, transfer private files, and capture cryptographic data.

For more information about Secure Boot, see:

• Secure Boot
• Secure the Windows 10 boot process | Microsoft Docs
• Disabling Secure Boot
• Device protection in Windows Defender Security Center - Hardware security capability | Windows Security Support

This tutorial will show you how to check if Secure Boot is currently enabled, disabled, or unsupported in Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Check if Secure Boot is Enabled or Disabled in Windows Security
• Option Two: To Check if Secure Boot is Enabled or Disabled in System Information
• Option Three: To Check if Secure Boot is Enabled or Disabled in PowerShell

OPTION ONE [/i] To Check if Secure Boot is Enabled or Disabled in Windows Security
1. Open Windows Security, and click/tap on the Device security icon. (see screenshot below)



2. Under Secure boot (if supported), look to see if it Secure boot is on or Secure boot is off. (see screenshot below)



3. When finished, you can close Windows Security if you like.





OPTION TWO [/i] To Check if Secure Boot is Enabled or Disabled in System Information
1. Press the Win+R keys to open Run, type msinfo32 into Run, and click/tap on OK to open System Information.

2. In the right pane of System Summary in System Information, see if the Secure Boot State item has a value of On, Off, or Unsupported. (see screenshots below)

[table][tr][td]Value[/td] [td]Description[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]On[/td] [td]PC supports Secure Boot and Secure Boot is currently enabled[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Off[/td] [td]PC supports Secure Boot and Secure Boot is currently disabled[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Unsupported[/td] [td]PC does not support Secure Boot or Windows is installed with legacy BIOS.[/td] [/tr] [/table]













OPTION THREE [/i] To Check if Secure Boot is Enabled or Disabled in PowerShell
1. Open an elevated PowerShell.

2. Enter the command below into the elevated PowerShell, and press Enter.
*Arrow Confirm-SecureBootUEFI
3. You will now know if Secure Boot is currently enabled, disabled, or unsupported based on what this cmdlet returns. (see screenshots below)

[table][tr][td]Cmdlet Return[/td] [td]Description[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]True[/td] [td]PC supports Secure Boot and Secure Boot is currently enabled[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]False[/td] [td]PC supports Secure Boot and Secure Boot is currently disabled[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]"Cmdlet not supported on this platform" error[/td] [td]PC does not support Secure Boot or Windows is installed with legacy BIOS.[/td] [/tr] [/table]










That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Enable or Disable Secure Boot on Windows 10 PC

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How to know whether the device driver enforcement is enabled/disabled?

You need to disable Secure boot in BIOS/UEFI and then check:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/85279-enabl...

 

Dual Boot Issue

Hi I just checked my bios settings and booted back into windows 10 witch was a lot faster.

It only seems to take 3 minutes to load windows 10 after using windows 8.1

Here are my current bios settings...

Boot options.

secure boot control - disabled

load legacy oprom - enabled

keyboard errors - report

usb boot support - enabled

boot menu security - disabled

boot mode - UEFI (the other option is Legacy)

 

Hey Dick, *Smile

Correct. It will depend on the firmware, so it can vary a bit for each manufacturer.

 

Thanks, Shawn. I'll bet that's not a widely known thing. Confirms my thoughts. Very interesting.........