Monday, 25 April 2016

How to Check If Your PC Uses UEFI or BIOS Firmware

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If you have a Windows 7 or 8.1 machine that you want to migrate to Parallels and it’s not working correctly, or you just want to know if you system is using UEFI or BIOS, getting the information is a little complicated. But don’t worry, because we’ll show you how to find out which boot environment your computer is using. First, use Windows Explorer to navigate to C:\Windows\Panther\setupact.log. Open the file in Notepad and look for the following: Callback_BootEnvironmentDetect: Detected boot environment: After the colon you will see either BIOS or UEFI. Whichever one is listed is your boot environment. If your...

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