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Disable Digital Driver Signing in Windows 7

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When you try to install some device drivers on Windows 7, you might come across a warning message that those drivers should be digitally signed. You can get disable this driver signing warning message in Windows 7 with the help of a workaround.

How to disable Driver signing in Windows 7?

Go to the Start menu and type cmd.exe in the Search Bar. Right click on cmd.exe and choose Run as Administrator.

Disable Driver Signing in Windows 7

If you have the UAC turned on, choose Yes to proceed. Otherwise, you should see the command windows opened already. In the shell window, copy paste the following and hit Enter.
bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON

You’ll get a confirmation that the operation completed successfully, as you can see below:

Disable Driver Signing in Windows 7

Restart your computer for the changes to take effect. You’ve just disabled digital driver signing in Windows 7.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 5th, 2009 at 9:07 pm

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  • Saeid_qaz

    tanks

  • LeandreRL

    thanks it works for me

  • Busstopsign

    how to undo this? it did start pc in test mode.

  • Zrennie22

    Here’s how to undo this, if it doesn’t work for you:

    bcdedit.exe -deletevalue loadoptions
    bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING off

  • Gutemberg

    You can just use F8 at boot time and select the option for temporary disable

  • Gubegube

    i did it, and now everything i have plugged in doesnt work anymore. no mouse no keyboard no nothing. now i have to figure out a way to fix this.

  • Crh044

    Worked perfectly for me! You’re a life saver!

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