Index: /trunk/src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/win/SUPHardenedVerifyImage-win.cpp
===================================================================
--- /trunk/src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/win/SUPHardenedVerifyImage-win.cpp	(revision 53033)
+++ /trunk/src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/win/SUPHardenedVerifyImage-win.cpp	(revision 53034)
@@ -254,4 +254,9 @@
         }
 
+/** @todo This nonsense is probably due to missing FILE_SYNCHRONOUS_IO_NONALERT
+ *        flags in early code stage.  Should clean this up, but leave code
+ *        for handling STATUS_PENDING as we don't know what callers of
+ *        NtCreateSection might've been passing to their NtCreateFile calls.
+ *        In ring-0, this code is mostly pointless, I think. */
         /*
          * Delay a little before we retry?
Index: /trunk/src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/win/SUPHardenedVerifyProcess-win.cpp
===================================================================
--- /trunk/src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/win/SUPHardenedVerifyProcess-win.cpp	(revision 53033)
+++ /trunk/src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/win/SUPHardenedVerifyProcess-win.cpp	(revision 53034)
@@ -1818,5 +1818,5 @@
                                  FILE_SHARE_READ,
                                  FILE_OPEN,
-                                 FILE_NON_DIRECTORY_FILE, /** @todo nonalert? */
+                                 FILE_NON_DIRECTORY_FILE | FILE_SYNCHRONOUS_IO_NONALERT,
                                  NULL /*EaBuffer*/,
                                  0 /*EaLength*/);
Index: /trunk/src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/win/SUPR3HardenedMain-win.cpp
===================================================================
--- /trunk/src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/win/SUPR3HardenedMain-win.cpp	(revision 53033)
+++ /trunk/src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/win/SUPR3HardenedMain-win.cpp	(revision 53034)
@@ -4848,5 +4848,5 @@
                                  FILE_SHARE_READ,
                                  FILE_OPEN,
-                                 FILE_NON_DIRECTORY_FILE,
+                                 FILE_NON_DIRECTORY_FILE | FILE_SYNCHRONOUS_IO_NONALERT,
                                  NULL /*EaBuffer*/,
                                  0 /*EaLength*/);
@@ -5306,5 +5306,6 @@
         InitializeObjectAttributes(&ObjAttr, &UniStrName, OBJ_CASE_INSENSITIVE, NULL /*hRootDir*/, NULL /*pSecDesc*/);
         rcNt = NtCreateFile(&hFile, GENERIC_READ, &ObjAttr, &Ios, NULL /* Allocation Size*/,  FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,
-                            FILE_SHARE_READ, FILE_OPEN, FILE_NON_DIRECTORY_FILE, NULL /*EaBuffer*/, 0 /*EaLength*/);
+                            FILE_SHARE_READ, FILE_OPEN, FILE_NON_DIRECTORY_FILE | FILE_SYNCHRONOUS_IO_NONALERT,
+                            NULL /*EaBuffer*/, 0 /*EaLength*/);
         if (NT_SUCCESS(rcNt) && NT_SUCCESS(Ios.Status))
         {