Which mode do I in my system, inheritance or UEFI?

I have a hp laptop with win. 7 pro. I want to see I have legacy or uefi and all the forums I go to says to go to the Panther file and find setupact.log and I did this and I do not have this file, and then I found out from another site that, sometimes, c.cleaner will get rid of this file, so, I was wondering if there is another way to know.

Another site said there are other ways, but it's complicated...? .. .any help would be appreciated, it's only cause I'm learning computers and there is no 911 on this subject, just curious... Thank you...

If you do not see the "efi" as in the screenshot, you have not UEFI. What you have is a normal BIOS as has been around for years...

Pass the mouse on the C drive in disk management and you should see the following...

File system, boot, Page Active etc.

There is NO mention of "GPT" or "MBR"...

Why is it a problem anyway?

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