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With the software upgrading, you may go through system updates. During that sometimes you may get the following error message:

Error messages: "Digital Signature Not Found. The Microsoft digital signature affirms that software has been tested with Windows and that the software has not been altered since it was tested. The software you are about to install does not contain a Microsoft digital signature..."

This is about the driver signing issue. Driver signing lets you make sure that installed drivers are compatible with windows, which means that the driver being installed has been tested by microsoft and works as expected. This setting controls the options that should appear if windows is about to install a driver that has not been digitally signed. So to set the driver signing behavior, follow this steps:

Step 1: Click the Start button, and select Run. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Step 2: Go to the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\] key, right-click and click on New -> Key to create a new key with the name Driver Signing.

Step 3: Right-click on the blank area in the right pane and click on New > DWORD Value to create a new DWORD value with the name "Policy".Then right-click on the Policy DWORD value and click on Modify.

Step 4: Enter either of the code values in the text box like "00 - Ignore, 01 - Warn, 02 - Block" and click on 'OK'. It further depends upon the values given on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE path.

Step 5: Now go to the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Driver Signing\] key, right-click on the blank area in the right pane and click on "New > Binary Value" to create a new Binary value with the name "Policy".

Step 6: Right-click on the Policy Binary value and hit on Modify.Enter either of the code values in the text box and click on 'OK'. The data values can be "00 - Ignore, 01 - Warn, 02 - Block".

This is the end of how to set Windows driver signing behavior. Following this guide you will get the knowledge about Windows driver signing behavior. Recently Microsoft released Windows 7, if you want to get Windows 7 driver, you can take a chance to to Windows 7 Drivers.


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