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 ...

Most computers come with just one operating system, which is usually all you need. However, if you feel like trying out a different one later, you don't need to get a whole new computer. Dual-booting ...

Over the past few weeks several people have asked me if it's possible to set up a Windows XP/Linux dual-boot system on a PC that already has Windows XP installed on it, and if it's possible, how easy ...

In order to learn more about UNIX, I got my hands on a Sun Blade 100 that currently has Solaris 8 installed on it. The system has enough memory that I decided I want to install Solaris 10 on the ...

Once the processor is running and memory has been initialized, timers and devices must be started up and a memory map laid out. Only then, can the OS be loaded. In the first part of this article, I ...

Unless your computer is pretty old, it probably uses UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) to boot. The idea is that a bootloader picks up files from an EFI partition and uses them to start ...

Secure Boot was once considered an unbreakable force protecting your PC. Now, it's vulnerable, and there's not an easy way to ...

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The boot loader has been moved from boot.ini to a utility called BCDEdit or Boot Configuration Data Editor Tool in Windows 11/10. In this post, we will see how to ...

Back in the old days of 2010, I used to walk into my home office in the morning, hit the power button on my production system, and then head back upstairs to have breakfast. By the time I returned to ...