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Secure Boot State is OFF although it is turned on in UEFI Firmware Settings

Mia Ramsey |

Please help me the following problems:

While checking system information using msinfo32, I see that Secure Boot State is OFF although I enabled it in UEFI Firmware Settings before.
I also accessed registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecureBoot\State and changed value of UEFISecureBootEnabled to 1 instead 0 as initial.
Then I checked again with msinfo32 is that Secure Boot State was ON and I also tried using Confirm-SecureBootUEFI command in Windows PowerShell to check this but status returned is False.
On the other hand, after rebooting my computer, Secure Boot State is still OFF.

I'm running Windows 10 Pro on Acer Aspire E1-472.

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4 Answers

You need to set Platform in "User Mode", Secure Boot in "Standard Mode" and Load Setup Defaults.

You could do it by Restoring Factory Keys:

  1. BIOS - Security - Secure Boot - Restore Factory Keys - Enter
  2. BIOS - Restart - OS Optimized Defaults - Enabled
  3. BIOS - Restart - Load Setup Defaults - Enter
  4. Go to BIOS - Main and check if UEFI Secure Boot is ON.

You might be in Setup Mode because you have deleted the Platform Key in your BIOS. Enabling Secure Boot in this state enables your OS to write a new Platform Key (possibly useful for securing a Linux installation). But if you don't do that, you remain in Setup Mode and the Secure Boot State, indicating the Platform Key has been used to secure the system, will remain off.

Your BIOS might have an option to restore the default Platform Key, possibly called "Restore Default Secure Boot Keys", which restores the Microsoft Key. After doing that, your Secure Boot State will be On when booting Windows.

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I had secure boot turned on my bios, but Windows 10 said it is off

so what solved the problem is

  1. reset the bios

  2. turn on legacy mode and restart .........that will say no os

  3. go back to bios turn on uefi and reboot...still secure boot off

  4. go to bios disable secure boot and reboot .....secure boot is off

  5. go back to bios and turn on secure boot this time and reboot ......in windows hopefully like me your secure boot option will be on

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Get into BIOS > Security Tab > Secure Boot Mode - Custom > Key Management > Restore Secure Boot to Factory Settings - Enable > Save n Exit .

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