Driver Disk?!

I think KTD is almost exactly what you are looking for.
It will copy all drivers to your HDD and tell Windows to search for drivers in that folder when new HW is found.

Unless you want to create this directory on an already installed Windows...

Coming up next - useful links:
• If you like this project, please support it with your donation!      • Grab your HW info (HWIDs) here!     
• If you are a newbie, be sure to check out the DriverPacks tutorial!     • Here's how to create your own DP!

Any hint how this can be done?!

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?

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

@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:

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.

@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.

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.

Last edited by fargo (2006-08-29 13:08:23)

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?!

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.