Starting your Surface from a USB drive can be useful if you want to change firmware settings or Windows startup settings or if your Surface device does not turn on, start, boot, or wake from sleep.

BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is a program that the computer's microprocessor uses to boot the system. It is the main link between the operating system and the attached devices like hard disks, ...

How a Hyper-V VM boots up will dictate a lot, especially if optical media are interchanged. IT pro Rick Vanover shows a few ways to manage boot order for Hyper-V virtual machines in this post. Hyper-V ...

Are you dual-booting Linux and Windows? If you'd prefer to have Windows boot up first, we'll show you how. Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an IT veteran turned stay ...