DriverPacks.net Forum - Driver Disk?!

Re: Driver Disk?!

null@example.com (Midi) — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:06:41 +0000

Ahhm, could you help me guys a little?
I wanna store the drivers on HDD.
I extracted the drivers on "C:\Treiber", I have now there a folder called "D" and in it all the other folders CPU, G, M...
But what do I have to do next, if I'm right at this point?
You said something about Devpath.exe, but I couldn't find it.
And how can I use this commands?
I'm sorry, I tried to understand the explanations, but I don't understand it.
If you could help me make it works, would be wounderful
Midi

Re: Driver Disk?!

null@example.com (Wim Leers) — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:33:24 +0000

Well you cannot apply makePNF.exe on the same files twice: Windows will detect the duplicates and just skip them!

Re: Driver Disk?!

null@example.com (fargo) — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 05:57:17 +0000

I meant no DSP windows where shown at all and closeDSP.exe did not close anything!! I even run makePNF.exe without closeDSP.exe in background and no DSP windows where given. Maybe there is a cache or something where Windows keeps info about drivers and doesn't ask for their signatures if it asked for them before.

Re: Driver Disk?!

null@example.com (Wim Leers) — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:54:43 +0000

fargo wrote:

Maybe I did something wrong the first time! I repeated the process today but did NOT get any DSP window!!! How can I make the DSP windows to show up again?!

Why would you want that? CloseDSP.exe is there to CLOSE the DSP popups...

Re: Driver Disk?!

null@example.com (fargo) — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:35:49 +0000

Maybe I did something wrong the first time! I repeated the process today but did NOT get any DSP window!!! How can I make the DSP windows to show up again?!

Re: Driver Disk?!

null@example.com (Wim Leers) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:58:18 +0000

It should. It doesn't check for any specific content, but for a very specific GUI layout. What language are you using?

Re: Driver Disk?!

null@example.com (fargo) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:37:19 +0000

There was a problem with closeDSP.exe! When the first DSP popup came, the program gave an error message (something like text not found) and exited!

Does your closeDSP.exe work with all Windows languages, i.e. multilingual GUI ?

Thank you.

Re: Driver Disk?!

null@example.com (Wim Leers) — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:15:43 +0000

fargo wrote:

@Bâshrat the Sneaky:
Will your updated guide install only signed drivers? Or it was only to get rid of Driver Signing Policy popup?
Thank you.

It was only to get rid of the Driver Signing Policy popups!

Re: Driver Disk?!

null@example.com (fargo) — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:14:16 +0000

@Bâshrat the Sneaky:
Will your updated guide install only signed drivers? Or it was only to get rid of Driver Signing Policy popup?

Thank you.

Re: Driver Disk?!

null@example.com (Jaak) — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:59:46 +0000

hehe

I kept my finger on the T key....

Re: Driver Disk?!

null@example.com (Wim Leers) — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:50:19 +0000

@FhM: since SP2, Windows XP ignores that setting...

And jtdoom is right: if you do it according to what I posted earlier, you might get a HUGE amount of Driver Signing Policy error dialogs - but if you only apply KTD on signed drivers you will get none...
So here's my updated guide:

fargo wrote:

Any hint how this can be done?!

Basically it's this:
1. Extract the DriverPacks to your PC, for example to %SystemRoot%\DriverPacks.
2.
a) Start closeDSP.exe:

closeDSP.exe

b) Execute makePNF.exe:

makePNF.exe %SystemRoot%\DriverPacks

c) End closeDSP.exe:

taskkill /f /im closeDSP.exe

3. Execute DevPath.exe:

DevPath.exe %SystemRoot%\DriverPacks

That's it.

Re: Driver Disk?!

null@example.com (FhM) — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:14:21 +0000

You should get rid of that if you edit the local policy try... gpedit.msc > Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security options > Devices: Unsigned driver installation behaviour.

Try changing that to silently suceed.

Re: Driver Disk?!

null@example.com (Jaak) — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:54:11 +0000

is there any way to keep the 'not WHQL' signed popup away when you do above?

1. Extract the DriverPacks to your PC, for example to %SystemRoot%\DriverPacks.

2. kill popup

3. Execute makePNF.exe:

Code:
makePNF.exe %SystemRoot%\DriverPacks

4. Execute DevPath.exe:

Code:
DevPath.exe %SystemRoot%\DriverPacks

Re: Driver Disk?!

null@example.com (Wim Leers) — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:25:17 +0000

It will not try to install the drivers automatically, since it has already failed. You have to let it search automatically for drivers.

Re: Driver Disk?!

null@example.com (fargo) — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:02:04 +0000

Thank you Bâshrat the Sneaky

Now, suppose that I have a fresh Windows XP with yellow exclamation marks on some hardware devices. What suppose I do after extracting DriverPacks and executing the two programs given above, so that Windows starts H/W drivers installation? Should I restart the computer or what?