Policy

Driver compatibility settings

Changes behavior of 3rd-party drivers to work around incompatibilities introduced between OS versions.

Policy

Pack Microsoft Windows

Category Windows Components / Device and Driver Compatibility

Policy ID f4d6129ccf6f

Internal name DriverShims

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Policies\Microsoft\Compatibility\DisableDriverShims (enabled) = 0
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Policies\Microsoft\Compatibility\DisableDriverShims (disabled) = 1

Policy notes

Changes behavior of 3rd-party drivers to work around incompatibilities introduced between OS versions.

Related policies

Device compatibility settings