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Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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Re: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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An immensly powerful and useful tool. Can't live without it. Hopefully the situation resolves soon.

What is it with MS these past few months? It's like they're trying to throw away the little community goodwill they managed to build up over the years.

Re: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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Is there no way to run unsigned software on windows?

For drivers, I don’t think so. You can enable some boot settings that allow you to run unsigned drivers, for development purposes, but it will revert upon reboot, without anyway to enable it permanently.

Re: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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Is there no way to run unsigned software on windows?

For drivers, I don’t think so. You can enable some boot settings that allow you to run unsigned drivers, for development purposes, but it will revert upon reboot, without anyway to enable it permanently.

you would have to automate that somehow if it becomes an issue

Re: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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post #3

Is there no way to run unsigned software on windows?

For drivers, I don’t think so. You can enable some boot settings that allow you to run unsigned drivers, for development purposes, but it will revert upon reboot, without anyway to enable it permanently.

Oh wow, the refusal is devastating then...

Re: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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An immensly powerful and useful tool. Can't live without it. Hopefully the situation resolves soon. What is it with MS these past few months? It's like they're trying to throw away the little community goodwill they managed to build up over the years.

> What is it with MS these past few months?

I was thinking the same. It's not been a good few weeks for them. They're quickly losing trust which was hard to acquire in the first place given their history. Maybe a timely reminder to mention Halloween [1] ?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

Re: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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An immensly powerful and useful tool. Can't live without it. Hopefully the situation resolves soon. What is it with MS these past few months? It's like they're trying to throw away the little community goodwill they managed to build up over the years.

Where did they actually do nice things?

VSCode is still not entirely open source and the official builds have spyware included.

Re: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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post #8

An immensly powerful and useful tool. Can't live without it. Hopefully the situation resolves soon. What is it with MS these past few months? It's like they're trying to throw away the little community goodwill they managed to build up over the years.

Where did they actually do nice things? VSCode is still not entirely open source and the official builds have spyware included.

Thank you for saying this. For those who don't know about the open-source release of VSCode, check out https://vscodium.com/

Re: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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An immensly powerful and useful tool. Can't live without it. Hopefully the situation resolves soon. What is it with MS these past few months? It's like they're trying to throw away the little community goodwill they managed to build up over the years.

The motivation seems pretty obvious to me: They want to obscure as much as possible what's going on inside OS.
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