Memory Integrity Turned Off

jvickers · Mar 25, 2022

Bree said:
That driver is the SMARTVHidMiniVistaAmd64.sys driver for SMART HID Device from SMART Technologies ULC. These HID devices should be found in Device Manager under 'Human Interface Devices' (you may need to show hidden devices). If so, you should be able to unistall it from there.

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If not, apparently you should find it (and may be able to delete it) in:
C:\Program Files\SMART Technologies\SMART Board Drivers\

If you can't delete it because it's in use, then boot to a command prompt then you should be able to delete it.

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I found neither the HID nor the file searching the entire system. The driver is still showing. I guess I can live without that feature. Thanks for the assistance.

Bree · Mar 26, 2022

jvickers said:
I found neither the HID nor the file searching the entire system. The driver is still showing.....

Drivers will be loaded by an entry in the registry. Try searching the registry for "SMARTVHidMini" as it may be using a slightly different name. If you find it there don't delete the registry key, not yet. Look at its contents and you should see a path to where the driver is stored.

Fabler2 · Mar 26, 2022

Bree said:
Drivers will be loaded by an entry in the registry. Try searching the registry for "SMARTVHidMini" as it may be using a slightly different name. If you find it there don't delete the registry key, not yet. Look at its contents and you should see a path to where the driver is stored.

I'm also wondering if Voidtool's Everything might also find it?

tinmar49 · Mar 26, 2022

I had this happen when trying to get a W10 pc to use MI, the drivers were AMD and there were no new drivers available, so I didn't fancy deleting them. All my W11 pc's have had the core isolation done thanks to Brinks help.

FrancoDT · Mar 26, 2022

I had a similar problem with an old 2017 WD driver wdcsam64.sys on my Surface Laptop and got rid of it following these instructions so I could use memory integrity:

Process:

Open up command prompt (CMD) as an administrator
type in “pnputil /?” without the quotation marks and hit enter.
2a. This will show you all the parameters and what they do. Helps a novice figure things out.
type in “pnputil /enum-drivers” without the quotation marks and hit enter.
3a. This shows all the third party drivers installed. Find the drivers and that correspond to the incompatible drivers from memory isolation. You can get more details by clicking on the incompatible driver in memory isolation.
3b. Confirm the drivers match and jot down the details of the drivers
type in “pnputil /enum-devices /connected” without the quotation marks and hit enter.
4a. To make sure the incompatible drivers aren’t being used, go through all the devices and check if the incompatible driver is listed by “Driver Name.” This part was annoying but made me less worried about breaking something.
After confirming you’re in the clear, type in “pnputil /delete-driver oem#.inf /uninstall /force /reboot” without the quotation marks and hit enter.
5a. Substitute oem#.inf with whatever your driver is causing problems.
5b. Do this for each driver, one at a time, changing oem#.inf to match as you go along
5c. /uninstall makes sure the driver is uninstalled; /force makes sure the driver is deleted, not a problem for us since we made sure it wasn’t being used; /reboot will restart the computer if deleting the driver requires it.

Unable to Enable Core Isolation Memory Integrity due to Western Digital Driver (Windows 10 2004)

finally figured it out. The key here is the tool PnPUtil. I used this post as a launching point. I did not see a single other way to remove this out of date, useless, broken Western Digital Driver. Not sure if this solution will work for everyone; it worked for me and I’ve included my thought...

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Bree · Mar 26, 2022

FrancoDT said:
I had a similar problem with an old 2017 WD driver wdcsam64.sys on my Surface Laptop and got rid of it following these instructions so I could use memory integrity:

That looks like a rather complicated way to remove that WD driver, I just opened Device Manager and set it to show hidden devices.

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Windows Update will keep offering it as an optional update. You may like to use wushowhide.diagcab to hide it, as I have done.

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FrancoDT · Mar 26, 2022

Bree said:
That's a rather complicated way to remove that WD driver, I just opened Device Manager and set it to show hidden devices.

I tired device manager showing hidden devices and I still couldn't find it. Apparently that old useless WD driver was giving a lot of people grieve trying to use memory integrity. The instructions look a little intimidating but actually weren't to hard to follow. It helped that the problemitic WD driver was at the end of the list and I just had to sub the driver number, in my case oem46.inf into the final command.

Bree · Mar 26, 2022

FrancoDT said:
Apparently that old useless WD driver was giving a lot of people grieve trying to use memory integrity.

Yes, it's probably the number one cause. Anyone who has ever plugged a WD external usb HDD into their PC will be offered that driver as an optional update in Windows Update - hence my need to hide it with wushowhide.diagcab on all my PCs.

Apparently it's only use is if you want to use the WD encryption software that comes with those drives.

FrancoDT · Mar 26, 2022

Bree said:
Yes, it's probably the number one cause. Anyone who has ever plugged a WD external usb HDD into their PC will be offered that driver as an optional update in Windows Update - hence my need to hide it with wushowhide.diagcab on all my PCs.

Apparently it's only use is if you want to use the WD encryption software that comes with those drives.

Good to know, that annoying driver took me forever to figure out how to get rid of and get memory integrity for that machine.

bobomoto · Apr 16, 2023

dbartenstein said:
I had that pop up today. Turns out I had an old Brother USB driver hanging around. I used the instructions here to find and remove it:

Windows 10 Core Isolation: Remove incompatible drivers

Hello, Actually, I just wanted to follow the Windows Security recommendations and under Settings -> Windows Security -> Core Isolation, turn on ...

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I had two outdated drivers that needed removed and this was the fix, Thanks!

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