Comments on: Loading Unsigned Drivers in Windows 7 and Vista 64-bit (x64)

By: Pam Stewart

Pam Stewart — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:54:41 +0000

I used Windows XP running IE8 to access my company’s SharePoint site from home using VPN software. No problem.

Then I bought a new computer with Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit running IE8. When I tried to access the SharePoint site through the VPN I got the error message “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage.”

Resolution: After much googling, I determined that I needed to upgrade from Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional.

This upgrade did not immediately solve the problem, but it gave me a more detailed error message: “Windows requires a digitally signed driver”.

I googled and found many suggested workarounds to disable this Windows requirement, but none of these worked. However, Windows 7 Professional comes with the “Windows XP Mode” feature which has to be downloaded from the Microsoft web site (but which is not available for the Windows 7 Home Premium edition). So I installed Windows XP Mode which allows me to run an XP session within Windows 7 by clicking on Start > All Programs > Windows Virtual PC > Windows XP Mode.

XP Mode worked and I was able to get to the SharePoint site just as I could with my old computer.

You’ve got to admire Microsoft’s ingenuity in making money. I paid for their latest operating system (Windows 7) and had to pay another $130 (Canadian dollars) to make it run my old operating system!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:27:21 +0000

Thanks to the commenters for pointing me to PeerBlock. Installed and working!

By: binass

binass — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:37:26 +0000

merci beaucoup pou l’info!

By: Jonno

Jonno — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:52:57 +0000

Hey Tim,

I have a new computer with win 7 64bit now and I am trying to get my rave III modem working. I am not that computer literate so if you can guide me through the process I’d be appreciative.

I have the setup cd that came with the modem.

Cheers

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:07:18 +0000

The number of times this blog’s solved something for me…

I’ve had to get a Netcomm AM5066 (Rave III) USB dialup modem working on a customer’s laptop running Windows 7 64bit. Netcomm have 64bit drivers for XP, 32bit for Vista and list nothing at all for W7. I’ve managed to get the XP64 drivers working in W7 by disabling driver signing.

I tried the NGOHQ program first, and that seemed to work okay. 2 weeks later my customer brought it back, and it’d stopped working; I couldn’t get it to accept the drivers again. Not sure what happened.

Then luckily found this post. I strongly recommend ReadyDriver Plus over DSEO; it’s a far simpler solution and a lot easier to set up and leave. It pretends to be a human pressing the buttons to get to the F8 boot menu and then pick the “disable driver signing” option.

Works for me!

By: Bobbel

Bobbel — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:06:29 +0000

Thanks a lot to run pg2 now on my w7×64

i use ReadyDriver Plus exe and it worksfine for me !!!

THXXXX

By: Gordis

Gordis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:45:50 +0000

Hola hice al pie de la letra como pone :
Click the OK button to go back to the DSEO window. Haga clic en el botón Aceptar para regresar a la ventana de DSEO. Now select “ Sign a System File ” and click Next. Ahora, seleccione “Firmar un archivo del sistema” y haga clic en Siguiente. You will now have to type in the specific filename including full path and click OK. Ahora, tendrá que escribir el nombre de archivo específicos, incluyendo la ruta completa y haga clic en Aceptar. For PeerGuardian, it is “C:\Program Files\PeerGuardian2\pgfilter.sys”. Para PeerGuardian, es “C: \ Archivos de programa \ PeerGuardian2 \ pgfilter.sys”. Restart your computer and the driver is now loaded. Reinicie su computadora y el controlador está cargado.
y se me quedo la marca de agua pero me es imposible abrir el peerguardian,Peerblock…..
Podriais ayudarme? gracias