How can I disabled digital driver signature enforcement?

Retrobro03 · Jul 10, 2017

So long story short, I need to access the f8 boot options menu. I have disabled the automatic startup repair (as it wouldn't let me boot to windows) and I don't want to repair the files, as they are modified, and it would be a pain to replace them. I believe that if I can disable digital driver signature enforcement, it will look past the fact that it isn't an original OS file.
I press f7 to bring up windows boot manager, but when I hit f8 to get to advanced startup options (Which I NEED to access the option to disable the signature enforcement) it throws up the "windows can't verify the digital signature for this file" (winload.exe). I don't have a recovery disk, and I disabled the windows recovery environment from automatically starting, so I can't access a command prompt of any kind. I would really appreciate any form of help.

hang-the-9 · Jul 12, 2017

That program is a core Windows file, what you are seeing is there to prevent viruses from messing with the system, it is not a simple driver signature error you may get from an unsigned driver.

eskalibur · Aug 20, 2017

Retrobro03 :

This has nothing to do with preventing viruses. "Driver signature check" is a procedure invented by Microsoft. They found a cleverly way to get a piece of cake from every driver publisher by verifying their products, which costs money. Some vendors refuse to pay this absurd impost, and that's the reason why you're getting "Windows can't verify the digital signature for this file" message. The only solution is to disable driver signature check within the Windows startup options. Here's the procedure for each Windows version: http://freewisdoms.com/windows-cannot-verify-the-digital-signature-code-52-driver-fix/

Keep in mind that provided solution is not a permanent, which means it needs to be done during the each Windows startup. Good luck.

hang-the-9 · Aug 21, 2017

eskalibur :

Retrobro03 :

This has nothing to do with preventing viruses. "Driver signature check" is a procedure invented by Microsoft. They found a cleverly way to get a piece of cake from every driver publisher by verifying their products, which costs money. Some vendors refuse to pay this absurd impost, and that's the reason why you're getting "Windows can't verify the digital signature for this file" message. The only solution is to disable driver signature check within the Windows startup options. Here's the procedure for each Windows version: http://freewisdoms.com/windows-cannot-verify-the-digital-signature-code-52-driver-fix/

Keep in mind that provided solution is not a permanent, which means it needs to be done during the each Windows startup. Good luck.

Winload.exe is not a diver file, it is a Windows file. This is not the driver message which is "Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers required for this device " winload.exe is a Windows file, it is a bit odd for it to not be verified as a 3rd party driver since it comes directly from MS.

ex_bubblehead · Aug 21, 2017

....I don't want to repair the files, as they are modified, and it would be a pain to replace them....

No option here. There are only 2 ways, repair or reinstall, take your choice.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/winloadexe-windows-cannot-verify-the-digital/9b86451a-8399-4dc4-ac3a-d9225efeedae?auth=1

androbourne · Aug 21, 2017

With the PC on and loaded into Windows profile, try booting into advanced mode and try it from there.

To do this you can hold SHIFT and you click on start>restart.

Normally this will boot you to a screen asking which option you want to boot into. Do as you did before and select advanced boot, it should reboot and allow you to select disable driver enhancement boot mode.

Very rarely have I seen it not work when booting directly into it. But I have seen it happen and doing it from an already booted state work for me in some cases.

If that doesn't work. I would download the Windows ISO, boot to it and perform an OS repair. Then try again.

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