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To check if Secure Boot is enabled on your PC, open the Start menu and search for “System Information.” In the System Summary section, check the right pane for “Secure Boot Status”, which will be set to “Enabled”, “Disabled” or “Not Supported”.
Modern PCs that shipped with Windows 10 or Windows 11 have a feature called Secure Boot enabled by default. It keeps your system secure, but you may need to disable Secure Boot to run certain versions of Linux and older versions of Windows. Here’s how to see if Secure Boot is enabled on your PC.
Instead of rebooting and digging through your UEFI firmware or BIOS setup screen, you can find this information in Windows itself.
Check the system information tool for secure boot status
You will find this information in the System Information panel. To open it, open your Start menu and type “System Information.” Launch the System Information shortcut.
Select “System Summary” in the left pane and find the “Safe Boot Status” item in the right pane.
You will see the value “Enabled” if Secure Boot is enabled, “Disabled” if it is disabled, and “Not Supported” if it is not supported by your hardware.
With a PowerShell cmdlet
You can also view this information from PowerShell. Why would you do this? With PowerShell Remoting, you can use PowerShell cmdlets to check if a remote PC has Secure Boot enabled.
This requires you to run PowerShell as an administrator. Search for “PowerShell” in the Start menu, right-click the “Windows PowerShell” shortcut, and select “Run as administrator.”
Run the following cmdlet in the PowerShell window:
Confirm-SecureBootUEFI
You will see “True” if Secure Boot is enabled, “False” if Secure Boot is disabled.
If your PC’s hardware does not support Secure Boot, you will see a “Cmdlet not supported on this platform” error message.
If instead you see an “Access Denied” message, you should close PowerShell and restart it with administrator permissions.
On a PC that supports Secure Boot, you can enable or disable Secure Boot from the computer’s UEFI firmware setup screen or from the BIOS confirmation screen. Typically, you’ll need to restart your PC and press a key during the boot process to access this screen.
If the PC doesn’t have Windows installed, you can check the secure boot status by poking around this screen: look for a “secure” boot option and see how it’s configured. If it is set to “On”, “Enabled”, “Standard”, “Default” or something like that, Secure Boot is enabled.
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