Booting from a USB stick is very helpful for many purposes. However, many factors have to be right for the boot to work ...

Still exotic for now, but moves are afoot Arm devices are everywhere today and many of them run Linux. The operating system ...

The whole purpose of dual-booting is to choose which OS you want to boot into. Traditionally, this is done in a clunky way, ...

Over the past few days I have been installing Windows Updates on my two most recently acquired Windows 8 systems (see My New ASUS Laptop and My New Compaq Laptop). I had read several news items and ...

One of the largest underlying changes to Windows 8 is the long-overdue shift from BIOS to UEFI. UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is superior to BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) in almost ...

James Bottomley, Parallels' CTO of server virtualization, well-known Linux kernel maintainer, and the man behind the Linux Foundation's efforts to create an easy way to install and boot Linux on ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsoft is detailing some of its security procedures for ...

A recently discovered ransomware strain called HybridPetya can bypass the UEFI Secure Boot feature to install a malicious ...

If you cannot boot into Windows after installing Fedora, identify the BOOT mode, update GRUB configuration and enable OS ...