Detect and Disable Device Guard in Windows 10
In case you are using Windows 10, you might have accidentally enabled Device Guard that prevents you from running NoirVisor or other hypervisors like VMware Workstation.
To diagnose the problem, run PowerShell and input following command:
Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_DeviceGuard -Namespace root\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceGuard
Check the item VirtualizationBasedSecurityStatus. If it is 2 then DeviceGuard is running. You are supposed to turn it off.
To disable the Device Guard, you are supposed to do the following:
- Turn off Virtualization-Based Security.
- Remove Hyper-V from system.
- Reboot system.
Go to registry HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceGuard.
Set every registry key values, including values in sub-keys, to zero.
You may also turn off VBS via Group Policy Editor.
Go to Control Panel->Programs and Features->Turn Windows features on or off.
Uncheck the Hyper-V, Windows Subsystem for Linux, Virtual Machine Platform and Windows Hypervisor Platform option.
After you removed Hyper-V, you should notice a dialog box asking you to reboot. Reboot system by clicking proper button.
If Hyper-V was not installed, simply reboot the system in regular method.
Check Device Guard running status by PowerShell command noted above again.
If you find that the following steps fail to resolve the issue, and you find a way to resolve it. You may request edit by opening an issue in this repository.