Category Archives: Windows 11

Windows 11

Installing Drivers That Aren’t Digitally Signed In Windows 11

Sometimes you may want to use an older piece of equipment, like a scanner, on your PC.  When you try to install the driver you get an error that the drivers are not digitally signed.  At this point the install stops, and you aren’t able to use your equipment.  Don’t worry there is way around this issue.

Steps to Follow to install drivers that are not digitally signed:

  1. Click the Start menu and select the Power Icon.
  2. Shift click on Restart.
  3. The PC will restart
  4. Click on Troubleshoot.
  5. Click Advanced options.
  6. Click Startup Settings.
  7. Click on Restart.
  8. On the Startup Settings screen press 7 to disable the driver signature enforcement.

You will now be able to install your device driver without any issues.  Reboot your PC to re-enable driver signature enforcement.

Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server

Computers Not Reporting To WSUS

I had an issue where I had several computer that were downloading and updating from the WSUS server, but they were not reporting.  I could see the in WSUS the computers checking in, but the last report date was not changing.  To resolve the issue I performed the following steps on the PC

  1.  Open a command prompt as administrator.
  2. net stop wuauserv
  3. Open regedit as administrator
  4. Delete the following keys
    1. HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate \SusClientId
    2. HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate \SusClientIdValidation
  5. Delete the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder (This seems to be need for Windows 11)
  6. Back in the command prompt – net start wuauserv
  7. wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow
  8. Go into update settings and check for updates
  9. Back in the command prompt – wuauclt /reportnow (This step is not necessary, but it should force the PC to report now instead of waiting 20 minutes)

After performing the above steps I check WSUS to make sure the PC is reporting.