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UEFI, does it offer an advantage for a Win 8 PC?

Started 4 months ago | Discussion thread

AwkwardSwine

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Re: UEFI, does it offer an advantage for a Win 8 PC?

In reply to kcbeatty, 4 months ago

kcbeatty wrote:

My Dell PC came with Win 7 installed on a 250 Gig SSD. It also came with the UEFI disabled.

Now that I have installed Win 8 is there an advantage to enabling the UEFI? I'm not familiar with this technology.

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Kevin

Speed and Security. Faster boot time may be possible with UEFI due to less "bios initialization time". You also get Secure Boot which closes some security holes that malware can exploit.

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UEFI, does it offer an advantage for a Win 8 PC?	kcbeatty	4 months ago	1
Re: UEFI, does it offer an advantage for a Win 8 PC?	AwkwardSwine	4 months ago	1
Re: UEFI, does it offer an advantage for a Win 8 PC?	HenryL64	4 months ago
Re: UEFI, does it offer an advantage for a Win 8 PC?	malch	4 months ago
Re: UEFI, does it offer an advantage for a Win 8 PC?	CAcreeks	4 months ago
Re: explain "security" please?	dmartin92	4 months ago
Re: explain "security" please?	dmartin92	4 months ago	1
Re: Administrator privileges	dmartin92	4 months ago
Re: explain "security" please?	CAcreeks	4 months ago
Re: explain "security" please?	Sean Nelson	4 months ago
Re: explain "security" please?	malch	4 months ago
Re: explain "security" please?	Archer66	4 months ago
Re: explain "security" please?	Don_Campbell	4 months ago
Re: explain "security" please?	Archer66	4 months ago
Re: explain "security" please?	Don_Campbell	4 months ago
Re: explain "security" please?	Archer66	4 months ago
Re: explain "security" please?	malch	4 months ago
Re: explain "security" please?	Archer66	4 months ago
Re: explain "security" please?	malch	4 months ago
Re: explain "security" please?	Don_Campbell	4 months ago
Re: explain "security" please?	Archer66	4 months ago
Re: explain "security" please?	Don_Campbell	4 months ago
Re: explain "security" please?	malch	4 months ago
Re: thousands of eyeballs	dmartin92	4 months ago	1
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Where is the certificate authority	CAcreeks	4 months ago
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Re: UEFI is a con, IMO	Phil_MI	4 months ago
Re: UEFI is a con, IMO	Archer66	4 months ago
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Re: UEFI is a con, IMO	sjgcit	4 months ago
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Re: UEFI, does it offer an advantage for a Win 8 PC?	Archer66	4 months ago
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Avoid UEFI	Jim Cockfield	4 months ago	3
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