VMware Workstation and Device/Credential Guard are not compatible Fix

joel
1 min readApr 3, 2020

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Today we will be fixing VMWare error on a windows 10 computer.

  1. In search box type “gpedit” then Goto — Computer Configuration — Administrative Templates — System — Device Guard — Turn on Virtualization Based Security. Now Double click that and “Disable”
  2. In search box, type Turn Windows features on or off, now uncheck Hyper-V and restart system.
  3. Open Registry Editor by typing regedit in search box, now Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceGuard. Add a new DWORD value named EnableVirtualizationBasedSecurity and set it to 0 to disable it. Next Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA. Add a new DWORD value named LsaCfgFlags and set it to 0 to disable it.
  4. Open command prompt as a administrator and type the following commands

bcdedit /create {0cb3b571–2f2e-4343-a879-d86a476d7215} /d “DebugTool” /application osloader

Then copy paste the rest below and press enter

bcdedit /set {0cb3b571–2f2e-4343-a879-d86a476d7215} path “\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\SecConfig.efi”

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} bootsequence {0cb3b571–2f2e-4343-a879-d86a476d7215}

bcdedit /set {0cb3b571–2f2e-4343-a879-d86a476d7215} loadoptions DISABLE-LSA-ISO,DISABLE-VBS

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off Now,

Restart your system

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