For questions relating to the INF Windows file format.
Questions tagged [inf]
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Google Android USB Driver and ADB
I am looking for guidance or a definitive answer on the following. I want to use the Google Android USB Driver and modify the android_winusb.inf to support any number of Android devices. I was able to add an HTC Evo tablet successfully, but when I…

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Installing a driver (.inf) file from command line
I am working in Windows 8.1.
I need to install a driver file (.inf file) from command line. Which command do I need to use?
I know I have many other method for installing a .inf file, but I must install this from command line.
Please help me
Thanks…

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Signed INF driver works on the computer where it was signed, not others
My company purchased a Driver Signing Certificate from Go Daddy. I used it to sign a simple INF file that is a driver for some of our USB devices that use Microsoft's usbser.sys. Everything seems to work on the Windows 7 64-bit computer where I…

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Need to completely remove a device driver in windows 7
I have an old USB device that is not recognized by windows 7, so I grabbed the device driver for the chip that handles the USB communications. After I modified it I used it to install for the device. Stupid I know, but now I need to get rid of it.…

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How do I use WiX to deploy an INF-based USB driver
This question could be considered a duplicate of:
How do I deploy a .inf based driver?
Except that I want to do that entirely in the installer, not with a separate program.
There's supposed to be an example downloadable…

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Replace all inf, -inf values with NaN in a pandas dataframe
I have a large dataframe with inf, -inf values in different columns. I want to replace all inf, -inf values with NaN
I can do so column by column. So this works:
df['column name'] = df['column name'].replace(np.inf, np.nan)
But my code to do so in…

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Windows 8 driver install and catalog/signature validation
I can't get windows 8 (release preview) to accept either the inf2cat or makecat approach described as solutions to the question at
What changed in the driver signature requirements for Windows 8?
unless I disable validation.
I am not signing…

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Installing a driver via pnputil
I'm trying to install an .inf file via NSIS like (Installing a driver in NSIS script).
Installation itself works smooth, but Windows installs the driver with its internal published name (an incrementing number oemxxx.inf).
How can I get pnputil.exe…

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How can I develop windows driver that does not touch hardware?
I need to create a WDM driver that emulates a device that is not present. The driver needs to be loaded when the O/S boots, opened and closed via SetupDiXXX and CreateFile, needs to respond to DeviceIoControl, etc.
I have the driver coded, but XP…

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Trouble installing custom inf in Windows 10 Professional. Windows overrides it with OEM driver
I have made a signed USB Serial inf file for a custom device and created an installer that successfully installs the driver to Windows 7 (32/64), Windows 8.1 (64) but not Windows 10. This applies to the default installation (right-click, install)…

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INF file for HID device - setting name and icon
I'm looking to create an inf file for a HID device (which has a custom VID/PID). I just want to replace the strings "HID-compliant device" and "USB Input Device" for our device with our strings.
I know this will need signing by Microsoft, but is…

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Inno Setup - How to read an INF file during the Setup
i need to know how to read a value from INF file [.inf], during the setup. I want the installer to check the version of the program that i am going to update, This program version is not stored in the registry or any other file, is only in the .inf…

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ActiveX not working on client machine
I'm trying to run activex control for a simple hello world message box.
First i created the class library and i have now the dll , then i created the HTML page and called the activeX control :
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Custom Windows USB / RNDIS .inf file to change Network Connections Name
I have have my embedded Linux device communicating with Windows 7 via Ethernet over USB using the g_ether driver in Linux. I am attempting to modify the example linux.inf file in the kernel source under src/Documentation/usb/ in order to have my…

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Windows driver.sys file location other than system32\drivers
Is it legal to keep windows driver sys file outside of system32\drivers directory? It appears that it is possible if a driver is "manually" configured via CreateService with absolute path to the driver.sys file. However when INF file is used to…

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