Featured

The June 2026 Secure Boot Certificate Expiry: What You Need to Know

on
If you dual-boot or run a Linux distribution with Secure Boot enabled, you may have heard about a major security deadline. The original Microsoft 2011 UEFI Third-Party Certificate Authority (CA) keys, which most Linux distributions rely on to sign their initial bootloaders (shim) on consumer PC hardware, expired at the end of June 2026 The expiration of a certificate doesn't invalidate already-installed, signed binaries on your system; firmware doesn't check expiration dates at boot time. However, moving forward, future Linux bootloader updates and security patches will be signed exclusively using the new Windows UEFI CA 2023 key . If your motherboard's firmware database isn't updated to trust this new 2023 key, your Linux system may eventually experience package management blocks or fail to apply critical bootloader updates. Before running updates, check if Secure Boot is active and see if your system already recognizes the 2023 certificate hierarchy. Open your termi...
0

Install Windows 7 pro in VMware workstation

on
Install windows 7 pro on VMware workstation 15x if you have a newer version use a custom installation


Make sure you use VMware workstation 15x or the PC may crash during windows update



You'll need a product key , I recommend this website or there are others just search for one


Choose how much storage you'll need


You can customize your installation here 

You'll need to install VMware tools. A easy way to get it to install is to manually remove the CD/DVD drive and floppy drive , then adding the CD/DVD drive again 


Just tap on 'edit this virtual machine' 



Start the VM again and go to the VM menu and install VMware tools should not be greyed out





Comments

Post a Comment