Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) has been a nightmare to deal with. Microsoft does everything it can to enforce it while offering little to no documentation on how to turn it off.
Before going any further, check if it's even enabled on your system.
🔍 How to Check If VBS Is Enabled
Press Windows Keyand type System Information.
Open System Information from the search results.
Scroll down and look for a row called "Virtualization-based Security".
If it says "Running", then VBS is active on your system.
🖼️ Below is an example of where to find this in the System Information window and how it looks when it is disabled:
If it's shown as disabled, it's fully disabled — no further action needed.
🧨 VBS Still Enabled?
If you're seeing this and haven’t already checked, be aware that a simpler way to handle this was explained earlier on the Virtualization-Based Security & Hyper-V (Basic) page.
Make sure you’ve gone through that first, as it covers how the loader can automatically take care of this issue in most cases.
🧱 Manually Disabling VBS via Registry Editor
If VBS is still enabled, you can manually disable it by editing a few registry values. Here's how to do it step-by-step:
Congratulations — you've been personally selected by Microsoft to participate in their special feature testing program, where VBS is kept alive by a hidden, firmware-backed setting that you can’t see and can’t disable through normal methods.
✅ What To Do
I’ve streamlined the process for you:
Download this ZIP file(Make sure to extract it into its own folder.)
