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by maxion
Thu Jun 11, 2026 10:35 am
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: Protected Windows driver has subsystem changed from Native to Windows GUI
Replies: 3
Views: 97

Re: Protected Windows driver has subsystem changed from Native to Windows GUI

Just found out it was our mistake. We have changed linker flags from /DRIVER:WDM to /DRIVER, which also cause subsystem to change from NATIVE to WINDOWS. Specify /SUBSYSTEM:NATIVE manually fixed the problem.
by maxion
Tue Jun 09, 2026 12:21 pm
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: Protected Windows driver has subsystem changed from Native to Windows GUI
Replies: 3
Views: 97

Protected Windows driver has subsystem changed from Native to Windows GUI

Hello, We use VMProtect to virtualize some functions in our Windows driver. The driver is working fine after it is packed with VMProtect but I noticed the subsystem of the driver was changed from Native to Windows GUI. Do I need to do post-processing on the driver to fix this or I did something wron...