MVP Web Sites. Smashing Library. Dan Wahlin's WebLog. John Papa | Evangelist on the loose. Scott Hanselman. According to the Microsoft Support website: "Core isolation is a security feature of Microsoft Windows that protects important core processes of Windows from malicious software by isolating them in memory. It does this by running those core processes in a virtualized environment. Memory integrity is one feature of core isolation which regularly verifies the integrity of the code running those core processes in an attempt to prevent any attacks from altering them. We recommend that you leave this setting on, if your system supports it. " Cool. Before we start Be aware: Do be conscious of each driver and what it does and consider what functionality - if any - you'll be losing if you remove them. Ok, ready? Turns out this was added way back in 2017 in Windows 10 build 17093. I ran the Windows Security app on my system and noticed a few things.
In order to be considered enhanced, your system needs to support: Some of these technologies are quite old and have been in Windows for a while.