Hi All, I am writing a printer driver for a printer that takes the image data in RGB planes. I need to break-up the image data and to send it to printer, the block of Red, Green and Blue data. I...

Hello, All! Can anybody tell me how to hide my miniport IM driver in Device Manager on Windows 2000? I tried to specify NCF_HIDDEN in INF file, but it does not help. I still can several virtual...

I want to install our printer programmatically using rundll32. It seems to work fine except if we install it on a PC that never had a printer installed before. I use the following line to install...

Hallo, I want to write a monitoring-tool, which gets all print jobs in a device-independent format and can be used with all printerdrivers. I took some looks on print processors and print providers,...

Hi. I'm trying to talk to a HID minidriver (keyboard collection) from a usermode program. I know this is not practical, but that it _can_ be done. HIDCLASS stops any normal attempt on doing a...

Hi, I am developing plug-in for Microsoft supplied Universal Printer Driver. Is it possible to remove UniDrvUI.dll supplied property sheet pages ( 'Layout', 'Paper/Quality' and 'Advanced' )...

I am building a Virtual Printer Driver under Win 2K, which will print from any windows based application and save the output to a file in a particular format. But I am struck in the middle of...

I am looking at writing the equivalent of the linux usbdevfs or usbfs for windows. Is there a way to disconnect the current USB driver so I can install my own? Thanks!

Hi! I need to map from an NDIS pDeviceName (used as the third parameter in the BindAdapterHandler call, part of registering a protocol driver) to a PDO (I need to be able to perform a quick PCI...

Starting a new thread regarding this issue, as I would like to approach the problem from another angle. I have come across a number of old newsgroup threads talking about "WanE" tag leaks when...

I need to increase the performance of the driver I wrote, and to do that, I need to write data directly to the physical address of the pci device we are using. I have already tried, in assembly, to...

I have written a application based on the Windows 2000 Filter Hook Driver. Basically the application was designed to run on a Windows 2000 server with two Network interfaces. It monitors traffic...

Hi Ive read through the other posts and MS KB articles related to the setting of the driver signing policy. I cant determine if there is any way of setting this policy as we require. We have a large...

I have a question on developing device driver for a USB2.0 camera. When reading DDK document, I think stream class and AVStream should be the class driver models I choose from. The USB camera...

Hi everyone, I saw (with DbgPrint) an IOCTL_INTERNAL_XXXX with value 0xf0000 was passed down the driver stack, I would like to know what it means. In which header these code are...

I work for an OEM of a tablet PC, we want to do something simalar to IBM's 'Active Protection system', where they use an acceloromitor to detect when the tablet is dropped and shutdown the hard...

Does anyone know how it works, I know the basics, there is a accelloromitor that signals the system and it shuts down the disk. But what is the plumming, does it take a driver to do it, or is it just...

Hi all, i am now trying to learn about power management, but so far it seems an order of magnitude more complex than PNP, and there are some things that are not clear: - why are there 2 power...

I need to check GSM signal strength for every 3 seconds and write it to a text file in PDA. This application must be developed in .NET. I have to also find how many masts are connected to GSM. As I...

I noticed that the tag for IoInitializeRemoveLock is an ulong, while IoAcquireRemoveLock and IoReleaseRemoveLockAndWait take a PVOID. for the ulong i specify ' DvB' (the reverse of my initials),...