How to disable "secure boot"?

King

Hi,

I recently got a Packard Bell laptop Easynote TE11HC, Im in the process of downgrading from windows 8 to 7 via disk. However the "secure boot" option is set to enabled and is greyed out meaning it is not booting from disk and booting from the HD to windows 8...any ideas how to get around this?

Many thanks

bengalknights

Go into bios and disable

poppy10_2

King wrote: »

Hi,

I recently got a Packard Bell laptop Easynote TE11HC, Im in the process of downgrading from windows 8 to 7 via disk. However the "secure boot" option is set to enabled and is greyed out meaning it is not booting from disk and booting from the HD to windows 8...any ideas how to get around this?

Many thanks

You need to completely shut down your computer first - with Windows 8 the default is for a hybrid hibernate when you click shutdown, which will not allow you to boot up any other operating system or disable Secure Boot .

Press Windows key+I, then click power, then shift+click Shutdown. This will force a full shutdown

King

Thanks for the reply the only issue now is getting the the BIOS after the complete shutdown, because of the UEFI the only way I know to access the BIOS is go into windows 8 settings and restart to BIOS through troubleshoot, and by doing this the button is still greyed out

King

ah ok so i managed to get into the BIOS from a full shutdown, but secure boot is still enabled and greyed out.