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I have a NDIS driver, which gets listed both in connection properties's installed items list and in device manager; the question is, how do I write an extension which will be used for managing driver's properties, and how to install it? Of course, a plain GUI program may communicate with the driver, set properties, get version numbers and other statistical info etc, that's what DeviceIoControl exists for; but, does this means that no dedicated interface exists to inform the driver about configuration changes? It would be pleasant if someone can forward this question to eggheadcafe/osr's ntdev

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 file. Then is a must to get the version from it. I got your answers, @Tlama and i cannot use a DLL to get version of the software. This program only save the current version in the INF file. What i want to do, is to make the installer to check the current versión of the software that i am working with, and display that version in a label text. The

Our device relies on a built-in windows driver (usbser.sys). Do we still need to go through WHQL testing or can we install in such a way that the user won't see a warning about not passing Logo testing? I found http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837637 but it's not clear to me if this will do what I want. Does it matter whether I use DPInst program or have my own program that calls DriverPackagePreinstall? [Edit: changed "Our code" to "Our device" based on comment] Ilya You don't need to sign usbser.sys (KMCS) but you still need to sign your .inf, because the matching of usbser.sys to your