disabling windows 7 driver signature enforcement

None the less, these are the hoops you must jump through. Microsoft has taken such a stance on this topic that they require you to jump though hoops and reboot you machine to use an unsigned driver. Windows 8 Will not allow you to install a driver that does not contain a signature. Another way to disable digital driver signature enforcement is using command-line tool to execute this command-line: bcdedit.exe /set nointegritychecks ON. All I had to go on was installation failed “rolling back changes” After 10 minutes of Googling “Windows 8 NEC DSX,” I found that my problems had to do with the driver missing a signature in the NEC software. User Configuration ->Administrative Templates -> System -> Driver Installation -> Code signing for drivers. There was no error message as to why this was not installing.

I could not install the DSX Administrator software to adjust the phone system programing. To my “surprise” this 5 minute task turned into a 30 minute process.

I typically do changes like this on site with my laptop running Windows 7 Pro. I haven't done this on Windows 8 or 8.1 just because the situation has not arised. Seriously, I have to jump through what hoops to make this work? I needed to make some quick adjustments to a NEC DSX Phone system today.

Disabling windows 7 driver signature enforcement