Enough's enough with this signed driver enforcement business! There's a piece of software I use daily which allows me to use my xbox controller and chatpad as keyboard/mouse. I've been using it for the last couple of years. It's essentially coded in a garage and has no hope of being digitally signed, and development of it has ceased anyway.
To clarify, the bit that doesn't work, ever, is permanently disabling driver signature enforcement - I can do it on a one-off, every time I reboot basis.
Back in Windows 7 this wasn't really a big deal. You just press F8 or whatever on startup to bring up the advanced startup options. Windows 8 changed this.
In Windows 8, it appears that it cannot be done from a cold boot - it has to be a restart. Not only that, but there are no fewer than TEN discrete steps to be taken when rebooting the PC to get it to bring up the same screen you get with previous versions of Windows with a simple button press on bootup. Not to mention the risk of accidentally clicking the wrong button while trying to navigate the endless submenus and having to start the whole process again.
The hilariousness of what you have to do from a cold boot knows no bounds. First you have to boot up, login with your password etc, complete the above steps and reboot, and login with your password again...
The guides for disabling driver enforcement around bcdedit ddisable driver enforcement complete successfully but then fail to do anything (although my OS does show Test Mode, the app fails to work unless disabled via a reboot).
Any ideas?
To clarify, the bit that doesn't work, ever, is permanently disabling driver signature enforcement - I can do it on a one-off, every time I reboot basis.
Back in Windows 7 this wasn't really a big deal. You just press F8 or whatever on startup to bring up the advanced startup options. Windows 8 changed this.
In Windows 8, it appears that it cannot be done from a cold boot - it has to be a restart. Not only that, but there are no fewer than TEN discrete steps to be taken when rebooting the PC to get it to bring up the same screen you get with previous versions of Windows with a simple button press on bootup. Not to mention the risk of accidentally clicking the wrong button while trying to navigate the endless submenus and having to start the whole process again.
The hilariousness of what you have to do from a cold boot knows no bounds. First you have to boot up, login with your password etc, complete the above steps and reboot, and login with your password again...
The guides for disabling driver enforcement around bcdedit ddisable driver enforcement complete successfully but then fail to do anything (although my OS does show Test Mode, the app fails to work unless disabled via a reboot).
Any ideas?
