Do you want to test a new driver? Here’s how you can sign your own drivers in Windows 7 or 8. Step
When Windows 7 complains that Windows requires a digitally signed driver, you can try this.
1. Step Read this tutorial to enable test mode and disable digital driver signing for a little background
2. Step Basically, you need to enter this command into an elevated command prompt to enable the test mode:
bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON
Create Certificate And Sign Driver With It
3. Step Copy your driver to a directory like C:\test
4. Step Open the Windows SDK Shell from your Start Menu (MicrosoftSDKs)
5. Step Create a self signed certificate for your PC by entering makecert -r -ss PrivateCertStore -n “CN=EnterName” (replace EnterName with a name)
6. Step Enter signtool sign -s PrivateCertStore -n “entername” C:\test\mydriver.sys (replace entername with the name from step 4)
IMPORTANT: If you don’t replace entername with the actual name of your own certificate (step 5) then you will get the error:
SignTool Error: No certificates were found that met all the given criteria
If you want to test sign drivers in Windows 8, you need to install the Windows 8 Developer tools (If I remember correctly it was optional to install them, so you might have to reinstall them before you can test sign a driver in Windows 8)
