Disable Vista forced driver signature signing?

hello everybody,

now there are two reasons why this post is in the gateway section so mods please read to the bottom before moving this thread.

anyway i'm trying to disable this annoying feature which is stopping me from running some freeware programs. so i did a quick search and found this post.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=270591

which tells me to download, ReadyDriver Plus 1.1. from ziddu

my problem is that www.ziddu.com has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked by firefox ver 3. now i don't know how seriously i should take this warning but i don't like malware so i don't want to find out till i know it's safe. i've also tried to find it elsewhere with no luck.

now to my gateway related part of this thread.

there is an alternative but i have two problems with it

the first one is that F8 doesn't do anything F10 is the boot menu and F2 is the bios, which i assume is gateway specific (6860FX btw) and two i can't find any option in either the bios or the boot menu to turn it off. again i assume gateway modify their system's bios and i've read something to that effect.

which brings me to my second gateway related question, will ReadyDriver Plus 1.1. even work on a gateway laptop (i ask only because i'm not sure how it disables diver signing enforcement and maybe gateways modified bios could get in the way of it working)

Any clues on how i can get rid of the feature (why Microsoft deemed us incapable of deciding if we want it on or not is beyond me, most likely for the $$$)

 

so nobody knows anything about this,

i'd appreciate any help

 

You can try "bcdedit -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS" from the Command Prompt (no quotes, and yes, two D's). It was supposed to have been muted in Sevice Pack 1, but it still works for some.

 

yeah this works thanks, but you have to open cmd as a administrator also i manged to get to the F8 menu to work, in the bios go to boot menu and disable hide boot process then press F8 repeatably on start up, that's the only way i got it to work. might work without doing that but i couldn't get to work.

 

I've used ReadyDriver Plus without incident. Its basically nothing but a boot menu macro. I had to use it to allow a USB to Serial driver to work in Vista x64. Here's where I got mine and have never seen it reported as an attack site:

http://citadel.x10hosting.com/readydriverplus/index.php

It can easily be uninstalled as well.

 

I think you aren't pressing the F8 fast enough. Press it the second the Bios screen pops up and continue tapping it fairly quickly until the windows boot screen comes on or the boot menu pops up.