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Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def... by nicce on Friday July 08, 2022 @05:47AM (#32024921)
Windows modifies UEFI settings on runtime. There is an API for that. Even setting password for BIOS/UEFI won’t prevent that as machine has been booted already.

For example :

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/acces...

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_26968097.html

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware...

There is also NtSetBootEntryOrder() in Windows ntddl

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