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May 20th, 2003, 02:55 PM
#1
Registered User
Driver Signing in XP
Hi All,
Here's something that we discovered this week, may help someone to NOT look stupid  May not!
One of our customers had 100 Dell's arrive last week. Our techies went along and installed our printer software on 10 of them no probs at all.
This week another 100 turned up, techies went to install the same stuff again on 10 of the newer ones and it was blocked by XP. The software does not have Microsoft digital signatures, and these newer 100 Dells by default had automatic blocking enabled for drivers without digital signatures. The ones delivered last week did not have it blocked, they just had it set to warn only. Well I had phone calls asking how to set this to warn only, and found it fairly quickly, (it's amazing how hard it can be to find something in a panic)!!!!!
This got us wondering why XP was suddenly set to block unsigned drivers by default, wheras last week it was set to warn, and there are 2 explanations....
1. Dell has set all new systems to block unsigned drivers, (do they need more calls to their help center?)
2. Microsoft has set this in XP as a default setting, (will it sell more microsoft products?)
Why did I post this in Tech Tips? Because you may find you get a call to change this setting in the very near future, find out where it is now and you'll look damn good when asked 
There's no panic like the panic you momentarily feel when you've got
your hand or head stuck in something
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May 20th, 2003, 05:01 PM
#2
Registered User
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May 20th, 2003, 05:25 PM
#3
Driver Terrier
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May 21st, 2003, 05:31 AM
#4
Geezer
WATFORD ! He must be crazy then ...
Look here for the 'full' low-down
...Or if you are too lazy to read it all ... right click my computer, properties, hardware, driver signing .... 
You can find 'un-signed' ones too, that you might be using 'inadvertently' (some install procedures just turn the 'un-signed' warning off ! ) & causing you problems, using 'sigverif' ... See KB 308514
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May 21st, 2003, 06:08 AM
#5
Registered User
Ooooooh NooNoo I'm hurt. You sound exactly like my football hating co-worker, in fact......
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May 21st, 2003, 06:29 AM
#6
Driver Terrier
And still no link!! or even a confirmation of Confus-ed's post - so there you go, supporting Watford is bad for you, QED.
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May 21st, 2003, 06:47 AM
#7
Registered User
How am I expected to confirm confus-ed post when he's clearly slating my beloved football team?
However, I can find no link that is superior to his offering, so go with that. That's all yer getting 
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May 21st, 2003, 06:53 AM
#8
Geezer
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May 21st, 2003, 08:29 AM
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Registered User
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May 21st, 2003, 08:37 AM
#10
Registered User
Oh my god, they're all coming out of the woodwork now!!!
I only wanted to submit a little tip we came accross to help others, now I'm just getting lorded over by premiership supporting techies!!!!!
HELP 
(stop flaming me glory hunters  )
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