Secure Boot in Windows 11

I just ran Belarc Advisor on my Windows 11 Pro machine. It says Secure Boot is disabled. In my search about secure boot I read that secure boot had to be enabled in the UEFI to install Windows 11. Obviously Windows 11 Pro is already installed on my machine. So, other than my problems with playing DVDs, which I have posted about here in the Eleven Forum, my machine seems to be working fine. How important is it for secure boot to be enabled and should I try accessing the UEFI to enable it?

It is my understanding that the requirement is a device must be secure boot capable, not necessarily turned on. See last statement here. Windows 11 and Secure Boot - Microsoft Support

MS does recommend that secure boot be on, though. Mine is not because I regularly boot from a Linux distro.

Windows 11 only needs hardware to support secure boot. Does not require it enabled. Secure boot makes sure software that is loaded is signed.

Thank you both for your replies. I believe I am going to leave well enough alone.

Hi,

Guys, don't compromise on your system security, enable Secure Boot if your usage allows it.

MoKiChU said:

Hi,

Guys, don't compromise on your system security, enable Secure Boot if your usage allows it.

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I agree with general sentiment.

However, it rather depends on whether person is dual/multi booting with an OS that will not run with secure boot enabled.

In such cases, user would have to assess if the risk of leaving secure disabled outweighs in inconvenience of flip flopping secure boot in bios.

Of course, it is safer to run non secure boot OSs in a virtual machine rather than running OSs as native host OSs.