How do you permanently disable driver signing!?

Nate_Cam · **10th September 2006, 06:44 PM**

I am going crazy. Half of the software i use wont run becasue windows has locked all unsigned drivers i am trying use. I can appreciate why it is a good thing to have signed drivers, but when even the big companies like creative DONT have signed beta drivers... WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU FORCE IT ON A BETA OS THAT NEEDS DRIVER DEVELOPMENT!?

Sure you can disable it by pressing f8 at start up and using the menu OR by the

Bcdedit.exe /set nointegritychecks ON

command. But both dont work permanently, and both dont stop ALL of the messages. I use PeerGuardian for blocking ads, and that for example still gets rejected after both are turned off. I have written a batch file that uses the bcedit command and runs at start up, but as i said i am still getting issues.

If anyone can help i would hugely appreciate it. UAC is already off.

thanks

Nate

drewhiggins · **11th September 2006, 01:35 PM**

I'm not sure if this is what you want but right-click Computer > Properties > Hardware > Driver Signing and choose Ignore and tick Default options always.

I hope that's what you wanted.

Nate_Cam · **11th September 2006, 09:15 PM**

Hey drew, I followed your directions and couldnt find it. Are you using RC-1? If not it may have changed?

I found something similar when i had a look for what you were describing, but i could only disable the windows update driver search, and how to make it ignore unintalled devices that have not been de-activated.

Can you give me any more info?

Thanks heaps for your help

Nate

Nate_Cam · **27th September 2006, 01:48 PM**

Just in case there are other people out there that use Truecrypt or other, non microsoft signed hardware emulation software, the only way you can disable driver signing in anything post RC-1 5600... is the f8 option. They disabled all other methods.

Bit of a hastle.

mad_bison · **27th September 2006, 02:33 PM**

can't you add a line to the boot ini or something?

Nate_Cam · **27th September 2006, 02:39 PM**

Hey Mad, yeah i tried that too. All the commands that worked before dont work anymore. I was reading a microsoft tech doc and it said it there that they have disabled everything else to encourage people to use signed drivers. There probably is another command - but finding it is harder than it sounds. I will keep and eye out and post here if i find any different.