First off, a little context. I'm a 30+ year Mac user and I just bought my first PC in decades. I'm no stranger to Windows and Linux, but haven't used them as a desktop OS for about 15 years. My ...

When installing a fresh copy of Windows 10, you typically use a USB flash drive to launch the "Windows Setup" wizard to continue with the installation process. However, on a device that has a Unified ...

Every Windows PC usually starts from the built-in hard drive, as the term “Windows PC” implies. This is because the Microsoft operating system is not anchored in or with the hardware, but is installed ...

I'm trying to make a reliable UEFI Secure Boot disk for any UEFI bootable system, for tech support purposes. I want to build a disk like the Falcon Four Boot CD (improved Hiren), but using Windows 10.

When you plug in your USB drive, do you see a UEFI NTFS partition? Do you know why Windows Explorer is displaying such a partition? If not, then you are at the right place! That partition usually ...

One such distribution is Tanglu GNU/Linux, an independent distribution based on Debian which offers KDE, Gnome, and Core (no GUI desktop) versions. When I saw that Tanglu had announced an Alpha ...

When you’re troubleshooting your computer or installing a new operating system, you may need to “boot from a disc” or USB device (like an external hard drive or flash drive). Here’s what that ...

Earlier this week I realized that there had recently been a new release of PCLinuxOS. It was not as easy or obvious as you might think to notice this, because there was no release announcement that I ...

To understand the transition from legacy BIOS to UEFI firmware, it’s best to begin with a review of a decades-old system—the 1983 IBM-compatible PC—and continue with a study of its successor ...