XDA Developers on MSN
Microsoft's Secure Boot certificates expire in June 2026, but older PCs may never get the fix
Make sure you've updated before the deadline.
Hosted on MSN
Windows 10 users warned to upgrade now or risk a degraded security state as Microsoft ends Secure Boot support
Support for Windows 10 ended officially in October 2025, and while over 60% of PC users have made the switch to Windows 11, 35% are still using the older OS. Look, I get that it’s tricky to break an ...
In June 2025, Microsoft announced that, in June 2026, it would begin deprecating Secure Boot certificates of Windows systems from 2011, which were superseded by their 2023 counterparts.
In brief: Secure Boot was originally introduced with Windows 8 as a firmware-based security feature designed to protect the OS from potentially malicious boot code. After more than 15 years, the ...
Get ye to Windows Update, because there's a good chance you've got new Secure Boot certificates to install. Microsoft just announced that it will be refreshing those certificates, which were ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results