SECDRV.SYS Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of older games.

I suggest that each of the guys and girls around here should use the feedback app search for the approriate post there and upvote the problem.

If you don't have Win 10 anymore and still want to participate let Gabe Aul (Microsoft) have a friendly email <******@e-mail.microsoft.com> about it, or twitter him. There are dozends of ways to make Microsoft more aware about this problem with secdrv.sys. The current system they use to find and eliminate bugs won't chip in here as there are no error logs created about secdrv.sys as it is simply not loaded with the boot if not properly digitally signed or signable.

I am seriously stunned to read that now also Windows 8.x seems to be affected.

Futhermore I am sure that the secdrv problem or even forced Windows Updates (which has certainly 2 sides of a coin, so benefits and drawbacks) doesn't illegimate achievements and improvements reached with Windows 10 that would - at least me - force to choose a downgrade.

To rebuy a software that you cannot run just because a freaking and pretty useless copy protection (secdrv was easy to crack) is certainly the wrong way. Insist for a solution.

Please read the whole thread so you can post something that adds to the solution, not be a problem.

NO!!!!, there is not a solution.

(Not for windows 10)

You obviously didn't read the thread, MS patched it so EVERYTIME you restart, it unsigns secdrv.sys.

(you need to restart to get it unblock/signed, hence forth, it is unsigned before it can be signed)

The only fixes listed are for previous versions of windows, they will not work with windows 10

I concur I applied the fix didn't work. booted with sys opening on start supposedly.

didn't work for civ 4

Please read the whole thread so you can post something that adds to the solution, not be a problem.

NO!!!!, there is not a solution.

(Not for windows 10)

You obviously didn't read the thread, MS patched it so EVERYTIME you restart, it unsigns secdrv.sys.

(you need to restart to get it unblock/signed, hence forth, it is unsigned before it can be signed)

The only fixes listed are for previous versions of windows, they will not work with windows 10.

No, I'm not asking MS to "fix" something they didn't publish.

Yes, I am asking they don't purposefully block it without giving the option for me to unblock it as needed, so I can legally use any software I've legally purchased.

Don't get me started on how **** written today is nowhere near the quality, why else would someone spend hours making something work.

(even if the challenge is fun)

And being your trying to make personal remarks towards those that don't have your view.

If I do something that causes issues to my pc that I built with my own two hands, I'm not going to blame them for it.

Lets face it, they might as well have coded windows to purposefully stop you from surfing the web, that's what this is about- taking something away that could be a risk for your pc to get infected.

(Not a rage)

And yes, with as much paranoia as there is about windows 10 being - bloatware, spyware, make you buy ware, there is no doubt the snappy response is easily noticeable.

This is the only reason I'm not uninstalling it and setting up a dual boot.

While your view may suit you, it is based on your needs, and I'm glad that works out for you, honestly.

One of the marketing features Ubisoft offered with their recent bundle of old games was they had no DRM. Meaning that no issues should experienced.

Of 12 games, only one from 1998 would not run right, and the old Rainbow Six flickers, but so does Rise of Nations

The old Aquanox from 2001 actually runs at 1920x1080 which is many years before that resolution became widely supported. Back in 2001 most were still using CRT displays.

I guess by "best" you mean the decreased functionality and user-control is a plus in your 2-cents.  Being forced to take any and all updates MS wants you to take, when they want you to take it, having to live with unwanted handwriting pop-up if you want touch services, burying formerly easy and readily accessible settings in obscure locations...

Windows 10 is simply the next step in the strategy to move all MS stuff to the "cloud" so that any time a bit flows in either direction between you and MS, they get to charge  your credit card.  Software-as-service is all about making all your computing "experiences" (at least from a licensing and billing standpoint) just like you cell phone. 

And based on the competing official statements from MS and Rovi (the "evolved" Macrovision) you can bet the SECDRV blacklisting is all about money, not so much about security.  I suspect there is a a dirty little war going on in the markets Rovi serves, and MS, in their usual way when the want a market, is creating the market fear - in this case "Rovi is a security risk, and always has been" - so they can move MS products and services to the front-runner market spots.  The time and effort it took to retroactively (back to Windows 2000) "blacklist" SecDRV a couple days ago and all the workarounds to allow use of products dependent on it with Win 10 dwarfs the effort it would have taken MS to fix any "vulnerabilities" in SecDRV - which, according to Rovi, MS has done two time before.  That clearly smells more like an issue of money and market bullying than security.