This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

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In June 2025, Microsoft announced that, in June 2026, it would begin deprecating Secure Boot certificates of Windows systems ...

Secure Boot has relied on the same security certificates to verify bootloaders since 2011, during the development cycle for Windows 8. But those original certificates are set to expire in June and ...

Microsoft has begun rolling out updated Secure Boot certificates through monthly Windows updates to replace the original 2011 certificates that will expire in late June 2026.

This year, he's willing to take on similar damage to get the job done. "Maybe I’ll cut it in half, but I ain’t cutting the whole thing off," Vrabel said. Vrabel, 50, already has two sons, Tyler and ...

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