If you’ve been following the Windows 10 trend in the past few days, you’ve undoubtedly come across terms like TPM and Secure Boot. If you have and are curious to know why Microsoft has listed them among mandatory requirements for their latest version Windows 11, you’ve come to the right place.
Solution: This PC can't run Windows 11 – The PC must support Secure Boot (Legacy BIOS mode to UEFI)
In this post, we discuss what Secure Boot is and why Microsoft made it a requirement for their upcoming release.
If you'd like to read more about TPM and how it impacts your Windows 11 experience, we recommend checking out this article from another one of our great writers.
Secure Boot is a crucial part of UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), something that has now replaced the old text-based BIOS that we used to have in PCs prior to Windows 8. Just looking at it in your PC’s firmware settings, it might seem like a simple toggle, but in reality, it’s much more than that.
