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Understanding the boot process - Windows Tutorial
From the course: Windows 10: Administration
Understanding the boot process
- [Instructor] In this section, we're going to talk about the boot process in Windows 10. In windows 10 we can think of the boot process as a three step process. The first step or group of steps is called secure boot, which then leads to trusted boot, which then leads to early launch anti-malware. And we'll talk about each one of these in detail. The first step, secure boot, is handled by the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, which is a standard implemented by your hardware. So Windows 10 is not actually involved in this. At this point in the boot process, the operating system hasn't started running yet, it's just the firmware on the motherboard that's running. UEFI, verifies the signature of all firmware files that are loaded, and that makes it difficult or impossible for these files to be replaced without your authorization, which dramatically reduces the probability of introducing a virus or malware into the boot process, hence the name secure boot. The security here is that…
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