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1. Allow installation of unsigned drivers windows xp drivers#
2. Allow installation of unsigned drivers windows xp driver#

Allow installation of unsigned drivers windows xp drivers#

All of this is helpful, as long as it is ultimately the user who decides what is safe to use on his computer.īut the reality is that lots of good and useful drivers are unsigned, because companies don’t want to subject themselves to the certification process. Users have to make choices about which drivers to install, and a Microsoft-sponsored stamp of approval, as provided by the signing process, helps users make that decision. Bad device drivers have caused many headaches for Windows users, so it’s good to give users more control over which drivers are on their systems. Optional signing of device drivers is a fine idea. (Device drivers are small programs that allow the system to interact with external devices or services.)

Allow installation of unsigned drivers windows xp driver#

To be signed, a device driver has to be approved by a special testing bureaucracy, according to criteria set up by Microsoft. The problem is supposedly that 32-bit Vista allows the use of unsigned device drivers, while 64-bit Vista allows only signed drivers. The reason, Microsoft says, is that the DVD cartel won’t license them the right to read DRMed content on 32-bit Vista. virtually all of the computers in use today, and most of the ones for sale in stores, use 32-bit processors, so they’ll run the 32-bit version of Vista – the one that won’t be able to play next-gen DVDs.

There are different flavors of Vista for 32-bit processors and 64-bit processors. 32-bit Vista will be able to access the discs, reading and writing ordinary content, but they won’t be allowed to access DRM-encoded content such as major studio movies.įor those not up on the jargon, Vista is the next major version of Windows. Microsoft has announced that the 32-bit version of its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system product won’t support playing commercially-produced next-generation DVDs (i.e., HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs), according to Dan Warne’s story at APC.