Change the driver signing behavior.

Digital signing on the device driver ensures quality and assurance of the product. But you can use this setting to change the default behavior.

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Description:
Digital signature indicates that a particular driver or file has met a certain level of testing and that it was not altered or overwritten by another program's installation process. It has got a quality stamp, an assurance. Depending upon the settings you configure, it decides on the behavioral action to be taken on finding unsigned drivers during hardware installation. Windows may either ignore or display a warning or prevent you from installing the driver. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. If any of the subkeys \windows nt\driver signing does not exist, create them as explained below. Then, create a dword value behavioronfailedverify in the right panel. Now, right-click and modify its value to 0 or 1 or 2 which can change the behavior of driver signing. However, if you want to activate the default behavior, change the value data to 1. The below registry values explains the action to be taken: <table><tr><td>registry value</td><td><center>action windows take</td></tr><tr><td><center>0</td><td>"ignore" directs the system to proceed with the installation even if it includes unsigned files.</td></tr><tr><td><center>1</td><td>"warn" notifies the user that files are not digitally signed and lets the user decide whether to stop or to proceed with the installation.</td></tr><tr><td><center>2</td><td>"block" directs the system to refuse to install unsigned files</td></tr></table> the changes take effect after a restart or logoff. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.