How to Enable or Disable Secure Boot on Windows 10 PC Secure Boot is a security standard developed by members of the PC industry to help make sure that your PC boots using only software that is trusted by the PC manufacturer. This disables secure boot. To enable it, the reverse is done. When i try to disable secure boot, it is grayed out and you cannot change it. In order to disable boot on z 390 ASUS motherboard on my TUF Gaming Plus Wi-Fi set one has to go to firmware> Advanced. I can't find any way around this, it saves my changes for any other setting, even the boot order, but I cannot disable secure boot at all, or enable legacy boot. This problem is so bad that even running Ubuntu is difficult because there isn't a good proprietary Linux display driver, so I always have visual issues, and no proprietary Bluetooth driver, so my Bluetooth is useless too. I wanted to have a dual-boot setup on my new PC, and that is not possible when secure boot is enabled. So, the first thing to do is boot into the UEFI firmware screen. ESC key is also the cancel operation on this prompt. But my screen does not look like the one they have. Secure Boot settings are only available via the UEFI screen. I am running on windows 8.1 using an Asus i7-4790S 64 bit. To fully disable the Secure Boot in Acer laptops, these are the steps you should follow. Step #1: Boot into UEFI Firmware Settings. Secure Boot is often enabled by default on ASUS motherboards with UEFI BIOS. Support for Secure Boot was introduced in Windows 8, and also supported by Windows 10. Out of curiosity, I go back to the BIOS and I realize that the Secure Boot Configuration settings did not save and have all reverted back to Legacy Support Disable and Secure Boot Enable. From advanced to secure boot and change secure boot mode from UEFI to other, exit and save changes. Go to the "Update & Security → Recovery" page. Selected boot image did not authentica te. 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