Windows – How to disable driver certificate verification in Windows 10

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I just built a new machine and need to load an older driver for one of my 44" Designjet printers, but Win 10 will not allow either the driver for Win 7 64-bit or for Win 8 64-bit because they lack a proper digitally signed certificate. Never had this issue in Win 7.

I tried using the shift/restart technique to access the Troubleshoot/Advanced Options/Startup Settings page where option #7 is to disable the certificate verification, but it doesn't seem to work. After selecting option 7 with the F7 key there is no verification of my selection, the computer just starts its reboot. This seems a little odd. Anyway even after trying this several times I still get the verification errors when trying to load one of the drivers.

Is there any known way around this? I see a bunch of certificate functionality on the god mode screen, but I have no idea how to use any of that.

Thanks for any help.
Jim

Best Answer

I found these instructions in a Microsoft forum:

  1. Click start, and type gpedit.msc
  2. ENABLE the option for code signed drivers at:
  3. User Config/Admin Templ./System/Driver installation
  4. then set the drop box to "Ignore"
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