Vista: Disable the Digital Driver Signing Enforcement

Contributed by Hack_Vista June 13, 2006  
Tagged: Microsoft Vista

By default, Vista requires digital drivers to be officially signed. Sometimes you can work around this issue by turning the enforcement off. Here’s how to do it.

Warning: This may allow Vista to install a driver that will make your system unstable. Frequently, disabling this check still will not get the driver installed.

That being said, if you are desperate to get a driver installed, this is certainly worth a shot.

Likely this option will be removed before the final version of vista ships!

Turn off Digital Driver Signing Check in Vista:

1. Create a shortcut on the desktop to cmd.exe
(this recipe explains how to create a shortcut if you don’t know how)

2. Right-click on the shortcut and select Run as administrator

3. When the command window opens, type or paste the following and press ENTER:

Bcdedit.exe /set nointegritychecks ON

4. Reboot and then try installing the driver.