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This video presentation discusses the secure boot policies for Windows 8.

This video presentation discusses some of the problems with the boot experience today and compares it to the improvements available for the modern boot experience with Windows 8. With UEFI and Windows 8 customers can experience a much faster and improved startup and shutdown experience.

This video discusses some of the key benefits to UEFI in Windows 8.Listen to industry expert's views on UEFI and Windows 8. Explore ideas for system and firmware design.  Learn how you can benefit from UEFI.

This video presentation focuses on how UEFI impacts system designers. It discusses how Windows 8 has two separate boot plans to choose from.

    Fast Boot is even faster than you ever imagined. Watch this video to find out how fast!

Recently, CNET ran an article claiming that Windows 7 boot times are actually slower than the boot times for Windows Vista. Not surprisingly, this shocked a lot of people who thought the opposite was true. Before taking that news as face value, though, lets examine the data. First of all, the…

At last week’s Intel Developer Forum, a company called Phoenix debuted new BIOS technology that allows Windows 7 to boot up from black screen to desktop in only 10 seconds. Called "Instant Boot BIOS," the Phoenix BIOS uses new UEFI technology to power on several system devices at once…

Lenovo, makers of the ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops, is claiming a significant improvement in the boot times of their new Windows 7 PCs. How significant? Up to 56% faster, the company reports. According to the press release, these enhancements are a part of a new feature called the…

Peter Provost posted a handy tip on his blog the other day that will be useful for anyone with a Vista computer that has a dual-core CPU. In Windows Vista, there’s a setting that lets you configure your PC to use both cores upon booting up (by default, it only uses one). You can change this setting…