- WINDOWS 7 ALLOW INSTALLATION OF UNSIGNED DRIVERS DRIVERS
- WINDOWS 7 ALLOW INSTALLATION OF UNSIGNED DRIVERS DRIVER
- WINDOWS 7 ALLOW INSTALLATION OF UNSIGNED DRIVERS VERIFICATION
This flag value configures the kernel to break into the debugger if a driver is unsigned. This registry value is of type REG_DWORD, and can be assigned a value based on a bitwise OR of one or more of the following flags: In order to facilitate debugging such issues, the kernel-mode code signing policy supports the following registry value: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CI\DebugFlags Debugging this type of issue may be difficult. Because attaching a debugger allows the unsigned driver to load, the problem appears to vanish as soon as the debugger is attached. For example, when a driver stack has an unsigned driver (such as a filter driver) that fails to load it may invalidate the entire stack. However, there are situations in which a developer might need to have a kernel debugger attached, yet also need to maintain load-time signature enforcement.
WINDOWS 7 ALLOW INSTALLATION OF UNSIGNED DRIVERS VERIFICATION
Enforcing Kernel-Mode Signature Verification in Kernel Debugging Mode To open an elevated Command Prompt window, create a desktop shortcut to Cmd.exe, select and hold (or right-click) the shortcut, and select Run as administrator. To use BCDEdit, the user must be a member of the Administrators group on the system and run the command from an elevated command prompt. To use this debugging configuration, attach a debugging computer to a development or test computer, and enable kernel debugging on the development or test computer by running the following command: bcdedit -debug on Attach a Kernel Debugger to Disable Signature VerificationĪttaching an active kernel debugger to a development or test computer disables load-time signature enforcement for kernel-mode drivers. This setting does not persist across system restarts. Windows Vista and later versions of Windows support the F8 Advanced Boot Option - "Disable Driver Signature Enforcement" - that disables load-time signature enforcement for a kernel-mode driver only for the current system session.
This PnP driver installation behavior cannot be disabled on Windows Vista and later versions of Windows.
WINDOWS 7 ALLOW INSTALLATION OF UNSIGNED DRIVERS DRIVERS
Signing the driver is required because Windows Vista and later versions of Windows display a driver signing dialog box for unsigned drivers that require a system administrator to authorize the installation of the driver, potentially preventing any user without the necessary privileges from installing the driver and using the device.
However, to fully automate testing of a driver that is installed by Plug and Play (PnP), the catalog file of the driver must be signed. Developers can use one of the following mechanisms to temporarily disable load-time enforcement of a valid driver signature. However, this default behavior can be disabled during early driver development and for non-automated testing. By default, 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and later versions of Windows will load a kernel-mode driver only if the kernel can verify the driver signature.