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Optimize your OS with the latest Windows 11 performance tweaks, security updates, and news on Microsoft’s AI-driven Copilot pivot.
… Secure Boot - 45 days to the deadline May's update is the last comfortable deployment window before the Secure Boot certificate expiration. The original Secure Boot certificates issued in 2011 and used by most Windows devices built between 2012 and 2025 expire on June 26, 2026. …
… KB5083769 , Microsoft's April 14 Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, is still causing critical boot failures on a subset of HP and Dell machines. …
… Microsoft's April 2026 Patch Tuesday update, KB5083769 , sent a subset of Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 machines into boot loops and BSODs shortly after its April 14 release. Users who can still boot normally are being advised to pause updates while Microsoft investigates. …
… Notebookcheck previously covered the boot loop issue affecting HP and Dell machines and Microsoft's simultaneous push to force-upgrade Windows 11 24H2 users to 25H2. …
… Microsoft's advisory focuses on Windows 11 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1 on x64 systems, along with Windows Server 2025 and Windows Server 2025 Server Core. Windows 10 does not experience issues because of differences in its WinRE configuration. …
… This is yet another significant Microsoft update-related disruption in April and May, following the KB5083769 boot loop issue on HP and Dell machines, the force-upgrade push to Windows 11 25H2, and the same update breaking third-party backup tools from Acronis and Macrium. …
… H3C's MegaBook with the Intel Core Ultra 228V, which can also boot Android, got the seventh spot with an average score of 3,310,228. The OnePlus Pad 2 Pro, which also launched as the Pad 3 in some markets, with the Snapdragon 8 Elite secured the eighth position with an average of 3,301,747 points. …
… SK hynix HFS512GEJ9X108N Sequential Read: 1439MB/s Sequential Write: 930MB/s 4K Read: 33.4MB/s 4K Write: 66.9MB/s 4K-64 Read: 261MB/s 4K-64 Write: 277MB/s Access Time Read: 0.105ms Access Time Write: 0.152ms Copy ISO: 713MB/s Copy Program: 215MB/s Copy Game: 519MB/s Score Read: 438Points Score Writ… …