{"id":3461,"date":"2014-05-29T05:09:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T05:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2014-06-04T03:35:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T03:35:00","slug":"pcunlocker-support-32-bit-uefi-and-64-bit-uefi-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/pcunlocker-support-32-bit-uefi-and-64-bit-uefi-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"PCUnlocker: Support 32-bit UEFI and 64-bit UEFI Boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3469\" alt=\"uefi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/uefi.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"126\" \/>UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a standard firmware interface for PCs, designed to replace legacy BIOS (basic input\/output system). Many new computers are shipping with UEFI firmware instead of standard BIOS. Most of UEFI-based computers come with 64-bit UEFI but there are also some Windows 8 tablets that use 32-bit UEFI, such as Dell Venue 8\/11 Pro, Toshiba Encore, Acer Iconia W3\/W4, Lenovo MIIX 2, Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 and ASUS Transformer Book T100\/T300.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a limitation on installing Windows on devices with UEFI firmware. A 32-bit UEFI firmware core must be used to install a 32-bit OS and likewise 64-bit UEFI for a 64-bit OS. It is possible to have support for both 32-bit and 64-bit UEFI in one BIOS, but it requires additional work and ROM space, so this may not be commonly implemented.<\/p>\n<p>If you forgot Windows administrator password for a UEFI-based computer, you can reset it easily with PCUnlocker. Just make a PCUnlocker Live CD and you can then use it to reset lost Windows password on any computer with EFI\/UEFI\/BIOS firmware. If your computer doesn&#8217;t have an optical drive, you can use the freeware <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/download\/ISO2DiscSetup.exe\">ISO2Disc<\/a> to make a GPT bootable USB drive from PCUnlocker ISO image.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/reset-windows-password.html\" style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">PCUnlocker<\/a> is available in two version (UEFI 64-bit version and UEFI 32-bit version). You can purchase the full version or try the trial version before deciding on making a purchase.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/download\/pcunlocker_ent_trial.zip\" style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Download PCUnlocker with 64-bit UEFI Support<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/download\/pcunlocker_ent_x86_trial.zip\" style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Download PCUnlocker with 32-bit UEFI Support<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a standard firmware interface for PCs, designed to replace legacy BIOS (basic input\/output system). Many new computers are shipping with UEFI firmware instead of standard BIOS. Most of UEFI-based computers come with 64-bit UEFI but there are also some Windows 8 tablets that use 32-bit UEFI, such as Dell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,31,39],"tags":[745,1697,1696],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-software-news","category-windows-8","tag-uefi-bios","tag-uefi-boot","tag-windows-uefi-password-reset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3496,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}