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Print Port monitor
Posted on June 13th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hi, I want to change the existing Printer Port Monitor, ie to send the file to a pre configured directory without prompting the user for any input( Not to printer). I want to know where to change and...

Monitor serial and parallel port data from other applications
Posted on June 13th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I have a need to monitor data that is sent by other programs to the serial and parallel port. Basically, I need to create an application like PortMon by SysInternals. My application only needs...

Hardware Compatibility Testing and UNIDRV based printer drivers
Posted on June 13th, 2005 | 3 Comments

I just completed a HCT run on a image capture printer driver, and low and behold found failures in 2 areas of HCT. Kinda surprising since we just pass 99.99% of our calls straight through to UNIDRV...

I have a problem in writting a device driver.
Posted on June 13th, 2005 | 7 Comments

I wrote a test device driver for a virtual disk, and it works correctly. but if I use any windows api functions ( ex: GetLastError() ), when I call start service it returns 0 and set last error to...

How to get the offset in the chained NDIS packet buffer?
Posted on June 13th, 2005 | 4 Comments

Hi all, I am a fledging in NDIS driver. Currently, I try to get the packet buffer via the function VOID NdisGetFirstBufferFromPacket( IN PNDIS_PACKET Packet, OUT PNDIS_BUFFER *FirstBuffer, OUT...

legacyMode Problems
Posted on June 13th, 2005 | 7 Comments

Hi, I am trying to use the legacyMode element within the dpinst xml schema, so that we can install non signed drivers using the Device Package Installer. However i do not seem to be bale to get it...

DrvStrokePath - can not provide bezier curves
Posted on June 13th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hello, I have a problem to implement a printer driver. My implementation of DrvStrokePath only provides points for lines. The flags PO_BEZIERS and PO_ELLIPSE are never set it I print a bezier out...

How to use the io control FSCTL_QUERY_RETRIEVAL_POINTERS
Posted on June 13th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I would like to use FSCTL_QUERY_RETRIEVAL_POINTERS to get the runlist of page files. However, I searched both in MSDN and on internet without finding any related information. Can anybody tell me how...

NDIS-PCMCIA
Posted on June 13th, 2005 | 6 Comments

Hi All, I have written a virtual nic based on netvmini sample. I am redirecting the packets sent to virtual NIC to PCMCIA(GPRS) card. It is working fine but sometimes it crashses. Here is the call...

I want to know how different between sdbus.sys ver8/4/2003 and ver 2/18/2005?
Posted on June 13th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I have no version 2/18/2005 sdbus.sys . and do wrong in version 8/4/2003 sdbus.sys. Where can I get the 2/18/2005 sdbus.sys? I want to know how different between sdbus.sys ver8/4/2003 and...

Linker error LNK4210
Posted on June 12th, 2005 | 4 Comments

Hey all, I just installed DDK build 3790.1830 (from DDC) and I am getting the following linker error when I use the Server 2003 build environments to build my driver's property-page...

Direct show Filter
Posted on June 12th, 2005 | 10 Comments

Is there any source filter for reading *. vob file format in Win CE 4.2 . Please let me know how to integrate with the directshow. Thanks, Regards, Johns.

Is there any way to suspend/resume a process from kernel mode?
Posted on June 12th, 2005 | 3 Comments

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Using Crypto functions in Device drivers
Posted on June 12th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I wrote a device driver and it works correctly, But now I want to use Crypto API functions ( such as CryptEncrypt() ) in it, Is there any DDK version of this kind of functins, what can I do? -- Ali

LocalService vs. User.
Posted on June 12th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I have written a print monitor that acts as a redirect. When running the process I see that I am LocalService. Is there a way (without using impersonation) to run the process as the user and NOT...

DiskId32 and Windows XP 64
Posted on June 11th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I am testing my DiskId32 http://www.winsim.com/diskid32/diskid32.html software on my Windows XP 64 pc. If I only have one SATA drive installed, then the call to DeviceIoControl for...

Re: Hi, xvalex here´s the document
Posted on June 11th, 2005 | 0 Comments

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The best way to enumerate devices under Win2K/WinXP
Posted on June 11th, 2005 | 1 Comments

I am curious what would be the best way to enumerate CD/DVD devices from user mode app? The result of enumeration should be the list of device driver handles so that the app could issue spti call...

How to force driver files location in .inf file
Posted on June 11th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi, everytime a hardware (like a WebCam) is installed on a new USB port, it asks for the drivers. That's ok. Now what I would like to do, is to change the .INF file such that if I have the driver...

NDIS- Installation
Posted on June 11th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Hi All, I am using snetcfg for my intermediate driver installation. "snetcfg -l .\netsf.inf -c s -i passthru" is what i am using for my intermediae driver installation. But what happens is when i...