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UPGDSED

Universal PatchGuard and Driver Signature Enforcement Disable

System Requirements

x64 Windows, supported versions:

Windows 7 SP1
Windows 8
Windows 8.1
Windows 10 (TH1/TH2/RS1/RS2/RS3)

Administrative privilege is required.

In case of EFI boot SecureBoot must be disabled.

WARNING

Using this program might render your computer into an unbootable state.

Source code provided AS-IS in help it will be useful BUT WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.

ANY USE OF THE SOFTWARE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Install

Run patch.exe elevated.

Uninstall

In elevated command prompt type bcdedit /delete < patch guard disable entry id >

Navigate to Windows\System32 folder and delete ntkrnlmp.exe, osloader.exe (BIOS boot) or osloader.efi (EFI boot)

Build

UPGDSED comes with full source code. In order to build from source you need Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and later versions.

Deprecation

The project has been deprecated in 2018. No further updates (or plans on them) are available. If you still need PatchGuard disable refer to these repositories (alphabetical order):

EfiGuard, https://github.com/Mattiwatti/EfiGuard
Shark, https://github.com/9176324/Shark

This repository is kept read-only for historical purposes.

References

Bypassing PatchGuard on Windows x64 by Skywing, http://www.uninformed.org/?v=3&a=3&t=sumry
Disable PatchGuard - the easy/lazy way by Fyyre, http://fyyre.ru/vault/bootloader.txt
Disable PatchGuard - updated for Win7 & Win8 by Fyyre, http://fyyre.ru/vault/bootloader_v2.txt
bootkit_fasm - disables PG/DS via MBR bootkit by Fyyre, http://fyyre.ru/vault/bootkit_fasm.7z
Kernel Patch Protection, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Patch_Protection
Driver Signing Policy, https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/drivers/install/kernel-mode-code-signing-policy--windows-vista-and-later-

Authors

EP_X0FF, https://github.com/hfiref0x
Fyyre, http://fyyre.ru