I have windows 8.1 installed on my desktop, while running belarc advisor I noticed it said that secure boot was disabled, I know this is my choice, but can ANYONE tell me if its worth installing or just a major pain. You can enable or DISABLE Secure Boot in your BIOS setup UTILITY (The steps to do this varies based on the machine but it's usually under "security").

This of course assumes that the system supports Secure Boot - PCs that did not ship with Windows 8 or custom builds do not usually SUPPORT Secure Boot.

That said, not having Secure Boot enabled is not going to be a big loss. It can help to prevent some Rootkits but that's really all, not worth worrying about not having.Thanks again young man, your the best.camerongray, Hate to say it -
you are right. This is a root kit sneak. Reported two years ago!
New vicious UEFI bootkit vuln found for Windows 8

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www.theregister.co.uk

By John Leyden, 19 Sep 2012

Italian security consultants ITSEC discovered the security hole....
Marco Giuliani, a director of ITSEC....
"Our bootloader hooked the UEFI disk I/O routines and it intercepted the loading of the Windows 8 kernel, THUS our bootkit tampered the kernel by disabling the security features used by Windows to prevent the loading of unsigned drivers," explains Marco Giuliani...

Reported two years ago!