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Virtualization Based Security (Advanced)

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

  1. Press Windows Keyand type System Information.

  2. Open System Information from the search results.

  3. 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:

🛠️ Steps

  1. Open the Registry Editor

    • Press Start, type regedit, and hit Enter.

  2. Navigate to the following path:

  3. On the right side, find the value named:

    • EnableVirtualizationBasedSecurity

    If it doesn't exist, ignore

  4. Set the value to: 0

Next, go to:

  • Find: Enable

  • Set it to: 0

Then, go to:

  • Find: Enabled

  • Set it to: 0

🔄 Final Step

  • If any of the above don't exist, ignore them

  • Close the Registry Editor.

  • Restart your PC.

  • Check system

🧪 Device Guard & Credential Guard Readiness Tool (Still Doesn’t Work)

Are you frustrated yet? Because I would be.

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:

  1. Download this ZIP file (Make sure to extract it into its own folder.)

  2. Inside the extracted folder, right-click and run:

    (Make sure to run it as Administrator)

  3. Restart your PC when prompted by the script.

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DGReadinessTool_ZSOFT.rar
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File for disabling VBS with DGReadinessTool

🖥️ What You'll See on Boot

After restarting, you’ll see a special screen asking you to confirm disabling Device Guard (aka Virtualization-Based Security).

🔑 Follow the on-screen prompt and press the key shown to confirm.

Once Windows boots back up, VBS should now be fully disabled. Go ahead and double check in System Information

❌ Still Not Working?

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