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Printer Driver installation on Vista and UAC
Posted on February 9th, 2007 | 0 Comments

Hi All, I had developed a printer driver for XP few years back. I did some changes and managed to install the printer driver on Vista. If I am logged in as standard user, It works fine with UAC...

PnpDTest
Posted on February 8th, 2007 | 0 Comments

Has anyone run into this error pop-up with PnpDTest before: "ERROR: TimeOut Occured - Atleast one of the Pnp IRPs did not complete in time" The ouput in WinDbg is posted below. The weird thing...

inf update
Posted on February 8th, 2007 | 4 Comments

Yes of-course, But the thing is when I am trying to update the driver from the device panel everything goes wrong. It refuse to install and I do not have much clue as what is wrong. I have to go...

AddPrinter Error1797
Posted on February 8th, 2007 | 0 Comments

HI All, I have a postscript printer driver and I modifed that code. It was working and installing properly. Now I am having some problem. Sometimes when I installs the driver, the "AddPrinterDriver"...

makecert - Error: Can't create the key of the subject
Posted on February 8th, 2007 | 0 Comments

I try to use the makecert from DDK 6000 in a 32-bit windows XP with SP2 machine. And I have administrator access to the PC. But the ' makecert -r -sk TestCert -pe -ss PrivateCertStore TestCert.cer"...

Vista 64 bit: HowTo receive origin inf file location?
Posted on February 8th, 2007 | 7 Comments

I´ve checked my updated CoInstaller dll with Windows XP 64 bit and with Windows Vista 64 bit and now it works on both systems. "Ray Trent" <rat@nospam.nospam> wrote in...

NDIS: ProtocolUnbindAdapter() gets called at IRQL DISPATCH_LEVEL on Vista
Posted on February 8th, 2007 | 8 Comments

On 31 jan, 18:37, j...@astrakhan.ru wrote: Are you running on a clean system ? Some virus scanners and other programs inject filter drivers that may alter the documented behaviour of other...

NDIS 6 restarting questions
Posted on February 8th, 2007 | 0 Comments

Hi, I have some question regarding the Restarting phase of NDIS 6 miniport 1. On the WDK it is written: "NDIS does not initiate any other Plug an and Play operations, such as halt, initialize, or a...

which WDK should i use?
Posted on February 8th, 2007 | 1 Comments

The "6000.16386.WDK_ RTM.ISO" file should be the correct one (RTM = Release To Manufacturer). Stephan --- On Feb 8, 11:13 am, "anlai" <laudr...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Which is the latest WDK?
Posted on February 8th, 2007 | 0 Comments

which WDK should i use? I can find two download resource currently. One is on the Microsoft connect,with the ISO name:"" The other is on the WHDC DDK

MSI install bus driver
Posted on February 8th, 2007 | 2 Comments

My Bus driver is a "Smart Card Reader Bus Enumerator"; I install it, and just after I install a smart card reader Driver (usb token) This Bus driver allows my device to be recognised as a smart card...

Can't attach buffer into resource for 1394
Posted on February 8th, 2007 | 3 Comments

Dear Sirs: I used to use Windbg to see, and the question is that it halted "GetOverlappedResult"(in 1394pai.dll) and not return....so I don't know what to setup these parameters in this UI to work...

Can I use safe string functions at raised IRQL?
Posted on February 8th, 2007 | 2 Comments

I need to do some simple string manipulation in dispatch routines that may run at DPC level. The strings are guaranteed to be in non paged pool, but my IRQL may be 0 to 2.

Startup in Silicon Valley is hiring!
Posted on February 7th, 2007 | 0 Comments

Senior Applications Engineer - Embedded Software I represent a very sharp company that has been around for a few years and they are hiring local talent for this company. The leaders of this company...

Startup in Silicon Valley is hiring!
Posted on February 7th, 2007 | 0 Comments

Senior Applications Engineer - Embedded Software I represent a very sharp company that has been around for a few years and they are hiring local talent for this company. The leaders of this company...

Network adapters immediately re-detected/installed after uninstall
Posted on February 7th, 2007 | 4 Comments

"Eliyas Yakub " wrote: The device installation feedback program for Vista is now open at Connect. Maybe it is better than calling Vista support (they should be having a really hard time...

Does User Mode driver requires a certification?
Posted on February 7th, 2007 | 1 Comments

See http://blogs.msdn.com/peterwie/archive/2007/01/23/do-umdf-drivers-require-signing.aspx -- Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK) Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver...

Coinstaller question
Posted on February 7th, 2007 | 1 Comments

Take a look at the src\general\toaster\inf\i386\toastco.inf. The only difference I see is that I use .NT with my section name. So try and see if that works. -Eliyas

Mouse driver for shared PS/2 for Win NT
Posted on February 7th, 2007 | 1 Comments

Not sure what you mean by a "shared PS/2 Connection", but the moufiltr and kbdfiltr examples in the WDK demonstrate how to write a PS/2 filter driver. The WDF/KMDF samples for the same driver are...

Problems with new NVidia NForce4 Drivers Ver.15 Released on Monday
Posted on February 7th, 2007 | 0 Comments

Hi I got Windows VISTA 64bit, and i cant get the new sata driver (non-RAID) to work.... which entry would i have to select if i would take the manual way over inf installation? the only entries i...