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 ...

Modern computers have become pretty powerful, and even compared to the builds from 5 years ago, we've come a pretty long way. Back in the day, the metric for how powerful and fast your computer was ...

Some of the best ways to cut boot time on Windows may require a financial commitment, such as increasing your RAM, upgrading to a solid-state drive (SSD), or replacing the motherboard. These are all ...

When Microsoft was developing Vista, or Longhorn, as it was known way back when, company officials were fond of making promises about ways that Microsoft would improve on Windows XP with its ...

Just so that you should know that BIOS time is not new – it was only not enabled for all. What is the Last BIOS time? Technically it is the amount of time taken by the UEFI (BIOS) to initialize (POST) ...

The ADK includes tools such as Windows Configuration Designer, Windows Pre-installation Environment (WinPE), Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM), Windows System Image Manager (WSIM), ...

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 ...

There is no setting for boot priority. I am wondering if because this is the very first time that I am starting the system that the driver for the optical drive hasn't loaded? The motherboard in the ...