Comments on: Required driver signing in Vista x64 cramps my style http://benhollis.net/blog/2007/06/19/required-driver-signing-in-vista-x64-cramps-my-style/ News about BenHollis.net and articles about Ben's interests Tue, 17 May 2011 17:51:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeff http://benhollis.net/blog/2007/06/19/required-driver-signing-in-vista-x64-cramps-my-style/comment-page-1/#comment-9095 Jeff Sat, 09 May 2009 15:45:08 +0000 http://brh.numbera.com/blog/index.php/2007/06/19/required-driver-signing-in-vista-x64-cramps-my-style/#comment-9095 Try creating a self-signed cert, then use THAT to sign InpOut32. From what I've heard, Vista64 won't let you use drivers that aren't signed, but it WILL let you use drivers that are self-signed. Apparently, if you try to use drivers that are signed, but not signed by a cert approved by Microsoft, Vista64 will treat them the way Vista32 treats unsigned drivers -- you'll be told they aren't signed by a trusted authority & asked whether you want to continue... at which point you can say, "use them anyway" and it will do it. Put another way, Microsoft's official documentation says that unsigned drivers are rejected by Vista 64, and Microsoft-signed drivers are OK. They're officially silent about drivers that are signed, but not signed with a cert signed by Microsoft itself. I'm not sure, but there might be an additional step involved where you have to somehow add your cert to the list of those implicitly trusted by Windows. In any case, this will hopefully give you another possible round of leads to explore. :-) Try creating a self-signed cert, then use THAT to sign InpOut32. From what I’ve heard, Vista64 won’t let you use drivers that aren’t signed, but it WILL let you use drivers that are self-signed. Apparently, if you try to use drivers that are signed, but not signed by a cert approved by Microsoft, Vista64 will treat them the way Vista32 treats unsigned drivers — you’ll be told they aren’t signed by a trusted authority & asked whether you want to continue… at which point you can say, “use them anyway” and it will do it.

Put another way, Microsoft’s official documentation says that unsigned drivers are rejected by Vista 64, and Microsoft-signed drivers are OK. They’re officially silent about drivers that are signed, but not signed with a cert signed by Microsoft itself. I’m not sure, but there might be an additional step involved where you have to somehow add your cert to the list of those implicitly trusted by Windows. In any case, this will hopefully give you another possible round of leads to explore. :-)

]]> By: Ben Hollis http://benhollis.net/blog/2007/06/19/required-driver-signing-in-vista-x64-cramps-my-style/comment-page-1/#comment-8818 Ben Hollis Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:10:25 +0000 http://brh.numbera.com/blog/index.php/2007/06/19/required-driver-signing-in-vista-x64-cramps-my-style/#comment-8818 Unfortunately that command has not worked since the Vista betas. Unfortunately that command has not worked since the Vista betas.

]]> By: Grauw http://benhollis.net/blog/2007/06/19/required-driver-signing-in-vista-x64-cramps-my-style/comment-page-1/#comment-8817 Grauw Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:43:27 +0000 http://brh.numbera.com/blog/index.php/2007/06/19/required-driver-signing-in-vista-x64-cramps-my-style/#comment-8817 You can disable driver signature checks in Vista 64 for a single session by pressing F8 (I think) while booting and selecting the appropriate option To make this choice permanent, you can use the following command (if the Internet is right): bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS You can disable driver signature checks in Vista 64 for a single session by pressing F8 (I think) while booting and selecting the appropriate option

To make this choice permanent, you can use the following command (if the Internet is right):
bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS

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