Windows 10: Windows security says "standard hardware is not supported"

Currently running windows 11. All was fine until windows security suddenly said "standard hardware not supported".I have TPM on, Secure boot enabled and intel virtualization enabled in the BIOS. and DEP is enabled. Yet the message persists.I even reinstall windows and reset everything on my laptop but still have the same issues.This is on a Dell XPS 13 9380, all dell drivers are updated as per their website.Does anyone have a fix for this? I never had any issues like this previously.

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Standard Hardware Security not supported

Hi Paul,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

We would suggest you to follow the steps mentioned below to run hardware troubleshooter and let us know if that helps.

Type "Troubleshooting" in the
Windows Search bar and press Enter.

1. Click on "View All" in the top left corner.
2. This will display the list of troubleshooters which are built-in in the computer. You can click on Hardware and Devices from the list and you can run the troubleshooter.

Also I would suggest to check if there are any update pending with regard to drivers and to do so, please follow steps mentioned below.

1. Search for Device Manager in
   Windows search bar.
2. Click on Device Manager.
3. Check if there Yellow Exclamation Point in the list of drivers.

Make sure Windows is up to date.

Hope it helps.

Manjunath H

Microsoft Community – Moderator

 

WIndows 11 - Standard hardware security not supported

Hi MP. I'm Greg, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, here to help you.

Here's how to fix Standard hardware not supported:

https://winresolver.com/fix-standard-hardware-s...

https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsinsiders/commen...



https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-11-22h2-bui...

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/bkjs...



https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/o9s...

Make sure TPM2 is enabled in the BIOS:

https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-enable-...



Report back results for each step so I know what else to suggest.

Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on the results you post back I may have other suggestions if necessary.

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Standard hardware security not supported

I'm replying to Jetta48's post since I'm building off of his reference, which is where I got the original information I used as the basis for my own facetious rant above. Reviewing the section related to Standard Hardware Security:

At the bottom of the Device security screen, one of the following messages will appear indicating the security capability of your device:

Your device meets the requirements for standard hardware security
This means your device supports memory integrity and core isolation and also has:

• TPM 2.0 (also referred to as your security processor)
• Secure boot enabled
• DEP
• UEFI MAT

As most PC systems built since the time of at least Vista and most probably during the later period of the WinXP era would contain hardware DEP and Secure boot was often enabled on higher-end systems even with Windows 8, these typically wouldn't be involved
in the display of this message for recent systems.

However, since both the TPM 2.0 and UEFI MAT hardware (really firmware) requirements are relatively new, either and often both of these might be involved on any system such as Jetta48's, since only the newest models might typically include these.

While looking for some of this info, I found the following Microsoft Docs article that provides some additional detail for these and other

Standards for a highly secure Windows 10 device.

Both the TPM and UEFI MAT are either described or include a reference to other documentation in their respective hardware or firmware sections.

Rob