Driver Signature Enforcement is a Windows security feature that verifies the digital signature of drivers before allow them to be installed and loaded on your device. It ensures that only trusted and verified drivers are installed, thereby protects against malicious or untrusted drivers. By ensuring only trusted drivers are loaded, Driver Signature enforcement significantly reduces the risk of malware or malicious code installed or compromising the system. Verified drivers ensure compatibility and prevent system crashes. However, sometimes you may need to install unsigned drivers, such as for testing or legacy hardware. Here is how to Disable Driver Signature Enforcement on Windows PC and fix related errors.
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Disable Driver Signature Enforcement
Important note: Disable Driver Signature Enforcement exposes your system to security risks, as it allows you to install and run drivers that haven’t been verified by Microsoft. Also Untrusted drivers might cause system crashes, freezes, or other issues.
Disable Driver Signature from Startup settings
This is the simplest way to disable driver signature enforcement on Windows 10 but bear in mind that this method will only disable driver signature temporarily. After you restart your computer, driver signature enforcement will automatically turn itself on.
- Click on the start menu -> settings -> update & Security -> Recovery. Then click on Restart now under Advanced Startup.
- If you have windows 11 computer, go to Start > Settings > System > Recovery, and then select “Restart now” next to “Advanced startup”.
- Now click on Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup Settings and click the Restart button.
Note: If after installing a new hardware device or third-party application, you are getting The Digital Signature For This File Couldn’t Be Verified Error, you need to boot from the installation media, to access the advanced startup option.
- When your computer restarts you’ll see a list of options. Here press F7 key to Disable The Driver Signature enforcement.
Enable Test Signing Mode
Also, you Can Enable The Test Signing mode By performing the below command, Which Allows to install or use the driver you want. To do this, simply Open the command prompt as Administrator, Then Perform the commands below one by one.
bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS bcdedit /set testsinging on
Then restart your computer to enter test mode. You will be able to see the watermark saying Test Mode on the bottom right corner of your desktop. Now you can install or use the driver you want.
Again If you want to leave Test Mode, Then again open the command prompt as administrator and perform the command below.
bcdedit -set loadoptions ENABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS bcedit /set testingsigning off
Then restart your computer into normal mode.
Permanently Disable driver signature enforcement
The previous solution will only disable driver signature enforcement temporarily, but if you want to disable it permanently, follow these steps:
First, open the command prompt as administrator. Then type the command below and hit the enter key to execute the command.
bcdedit.exe /set nointegritychecks on
Again If you Decide To enable driver signature enforcement back again, open the Command Prompt as administrator and perform Command bellow.
bcdedit.exe /set nointegritychecks off
Note: Driver Signing is a security feature that protects your system and you should consider re-enabling it as soon as it is possible.
Driver signature enforcement is a useful feature that provides extra protection. But sometimes extra protection can cause problems when installing certain drivers. I hope that you now understand how driver signature enforcement works and how to disable it in Windows.
