Mothra and Jonvon,

Memory Integrity keeps malware out of high security processes during an attack so your system is not completely taken hostage or destroyed. It's very important this remains on (unless you hardly use your PC at all or maybe like... you never, ever connect to the internet.). One can learn in a day how to place malware onto another's computer remotely because it's not complicated and most users are not paying attention. It's actually kind of amazing how "huh, weird, oh well!" the mods and Microsoft are about a security flaw like that.... then again, we're all stuck with this thing because not even Microsoft knows how to uninstall itself correctly :|

! to offer this link as a solution next, I don't know, but perhaps nobody knew it existed before.

*******I went Settings > Check Windows Update (at the top of the settings page) > saw I had an OPTIONAL update > clicked it to see the files > ooooh a preview of Windows 10 bc MS can't figure out how to get W11 to work with an intel i7 quad core processor > beneath were 4 drivers that needed to be installed > installed these drivers > PROBLEM SOLVED. And by the way, for me, this was not really a compatibility issue because I lacked the driver completely (it's for an old thumb drive I'm using... It's really sad and stupid that Windows won't grab the appropriate driver automatically--presumably because the USB is old (from 2008)--and will instead turn off Memory Integrity then proceed to be extremely vague and general about why. Memory Integrity keeps malware out of high security processes during an attack so your system is not completely taken hostage. It's extremely important this remains ON (unless you hardly use your PC at all or... you never, ever connect to the internet.). One can learn in a day how to place malware onto another's computer remotely because it's not complicated at all. It's actually kind of amazing how blaise the mods and Microsoft are about an insecurity like that.... then again, we're all stuck with this thing because not even Microsoft knows how to uninstall itself correctly :|

It's not an exaggeration. Here is the text from the "help" page Windows points you toward (after revealing a pretty big security issue. Naturally, you'd want to hop right on the internet and test your luck instead of keeping the help files stored locally... and also making them helpful):

"Turning on the Memory integrity setting would block these incompatible drivers from loading. Because blocking these drivers might cause unwanted or unexpected behaviors, the Memory integrity setting is turned off to allow these drivers to load. If you want to restore the Memory integrity setting, you can try to resolve a driver incompatibility by seeing if an updated and compatible driver is available through Windows Update or from the driver manufacturer. Microsoft does not recommend that you delete drivers to attempt to restore this setting."

Anywho... Just use ChatGPT3.5 for your queries. At least ChatGPT won't quit answering and will see the issue through with you until the end! unless you run out of freebies, of course.