# Elastic Agent on Older Windows Disable Driver Signature Enforcement

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-on-older-windows-disable-driver-signature-enforcement/245667>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** elastic-agent\
**Created:** [August 19, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-on-older-windows-disable-driver-signature-enforcement/245667 "2020-08-19T19:31:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dallas\_Toth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dallas_toth/32/22630_2.png) [@Dallas\_Toth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dallas_Toth)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-on-older-windows-disable-driver-signature-enforcement/245667/1 "2020-08-19T19:31:55Z")

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> **[How to fix: "Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file" error...](https://www.wintips.org/how-to-fix-windows-cannot-verify-the-digital-signature-for-this-file-error-in-windows-8-7-vista/#solution-2)**
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> This tutorial contains detailed instructions on how to bypass the "Windows cannot verify the digital signature" error in Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 and Vista)

  
In order to have elastic agent install Endpoint on older windows you need to disable Driver Signature Enforcement  
With  
CMD as Administrator  
bcdedit /set testsigning on  
Then restart windows.

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**Author:** ![NickFritts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nickfritts/32/47189_2.png) [@NickFritts](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NickFritts)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-on-older-windows-disable-driver-signature-enforcement/245667/2 "2020-08-20T20:08:16Z")

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Hi @Dallas_Toth,

Thanks for reporting this issue. This is not the expected behavior. I think I've identified the issue with signing the endpoint binaries. (They used a new process that we hasn't been used before).

I've opened an issue on the new endpoint issue repo to track it and we will be fixing it as soon as we can [https://github.com/elastic/endpoint/issues/1](https://github.com/elastic/endpoint/issues/1)

Let me know if you have any other questions or feel free to engage on the issue linked above.

-Nick Fritts

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**Author:** ![NickFritts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nickfritts/32/47189_2.png) [@NickFritts](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NickFritts)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-on-older-windows-disable-driver-signature-enforcement/245667/3 "2020-08-20T21:31:51Z")

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@Dallas_Toth

Thanks again for reporting the issue. Just wanted to follow up and let you know that we did identify the issue with signing process and have merged a fix for it that should be out with the next patch release.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-on-older-windows-disable-driver-signature-enforcement/245667/4 "2020-09-17T21:31:59Z")

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