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I’m usually a Mac user normally but have just bought a new Windows 11 Laptop for work and having a couple of teething issues.
I have an external CD drive that I’ve used with my Mac for ages, but it is compatible for both Windows and Mac. When I plug the drive into the Windows Laptop I get a pop up saying that the driver can’t be installed due to Microsoft Security, and on following the help it says that I need to turn off memory integrity in the core isolation section of security. If I do this the drive works.
The problem with this is that I don’t want the memory integrity off all the time and it’s a pain having to turn it off and on every time I use the CD drive, especially as it requires a restart. Is there a workaround anyone knows of? Can you set specific items to bypass the security settings?
The driver in question is GEARAspiWDM.sys, and a quick google tells me this is a driver that allows CD recording capabilities to iTunes.
I’ve looked at other CD drives and they’re all compatible with Mac and Windows so I’m guessing if I bought a new drive I’d run into the same issues?
Any help would be appreciated.
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That should not have caused Windows to revert to factory settings.
In the search bar in Windows, type restore and from the resulting list, open the 'Create a restore point' utility
Create a new system restore point, so you can use that in the future if you ever need to.
Dd you select the Windows Reset option or a System Restore where you would be asked to select a date to restore to?
I just set it to scan for start up issues 🤷🏻♂️
Dd you select the Windows Reset option or a System Restore where you would be asked to select a date to restore to?
Start your PC, just as Windows attempts to load (spinning dots), press and hold Power Button for 5 - 10 seconds to perform a Hard Shut Down
Do this twice
On the third start Windows will boot into the Recovery Environment and from there you can access System Repair, Safe Mode, Command Prompt... etc.
Go to Troubleshoot - Advanced Option - System Restore
Check to see if you have a restore point you can go back to
Well in scanning for start up issues it looks as though it's done a full reset/restore and the computer has gone back to how it was when I got it yesterday. Bit of a pain that.
With Mac you have timemachine that saves all the settings and files to an external drive and you can restore back to these if you run into issues, it restores everything even down to the screen brightness you had, is there something similar in Windows in case I run into this again?
