OriginalName 0 Posted September 30, 2020 Report Share Posted September 30, 2020 I just bought Tor Guard and tried installing it and the Tap driver never installs. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling both times removing it from device manager to no avail. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 JayT 0 Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 On 9/30/2020 at 1:03 PM, OriginalName said: I just bought Tor Guard and tried installing it and the Tap driver never installs. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling both times removing it from device manager to no avail. I had the same problem, but only with Windows 10. I wasn't able to use TorGuard for a couple of days as I tried to figure out what the problem was, but I finally resolved it. It seems to trace to the signed driver policy used in Win 10. I never had this problem before upgrading to Windows 10. The TAP driver installs with no problems on my Windows 7 machine. Windows 10 refuses to install it no matter which computer is running it. The solution to the problem is not so easily apparent to the average user. The only way around it seems to be to disable 'Driver Signature Enforcement' prior to booting into Windows 10 and then installing the TAP driver and then rebooting. If you don't do this, the TAP installer will hang indefinitely until it eventually times out with a fatal installation error. After the next reboot, 'Driver Signature Enforcement' will be automatically re-enabled in Windows 10 as a security feature. Apparently the TAP drivers lack a Microsoft signature. Any driver that lacks such a signature will require disabling 'Driver Signature Enforcement' before booting into Windows 10 in order to install it, including TAP drivers. Hope this info helps someone. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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I just bought Tor Guard and tried installing it and the Tap driver never installs. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling both times removing it from device manager to no avail.
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