Device Drivers

Calling CreateFile / DeviceIOControl from a limited user accou
I have modified the inf for my driver giving Generic all access to the World (Everyone) but that did not make a difference. So what you are saying is that there is no way to grant a limited user the rights to run code that connects to a driver without making them an administrator? -- Matthew Townsend Gen... 11 Mar 2007 01:09

HID minidriver with multiple report descriptors
Hi, I write a HID minidriver with standard Mouse and Keyboard report descriptors. It is based on vhidmini in Windows Server 2003 DDK. The driver work fine and I can read/write the report from the device. The Device Manager shows it is HID-compliant device in HID class, but the Mouse Class and Keyboard Class hav... 12 Mar 2007 01:54

"Fake" Keyboard or Mouse driver
Does anyone know if is possible to get (and where is it of course...) a "fake" keyborad (or mouse) driver that can simulate key press or mouse click generated by code (like C++, VB.NET ecc) ? I would like to "simulate" some condition on a virtual machine, but I can't install any other SW in it because the OS ins... 8 Mar 2007 17:48

DTM Master Config Test Fail. PLEASE HELP!
Dear All I have been having Nightmare trying to get the Vista Logo Test running. Anyone knows anything, please help. Running a Vista Logo Test for LCD Monitor for the Master Config Job, it always seems to go into Debug Mode and Fail in the very first test call Create Dimension XSLT. Looking at the CHild Result... 13 Mar 2007 09:58

WDF EvtIoStop, are interrupts hooked when this callback is cal
Doran, thanks for your comment. The driver is using power-managed queues, and I have the option of either disabling interrupts in EvtIoStop or not - I'd rather not to! The actual question is, if I don't disable the interrupts in EvtIoStop and I receive an interrupt after calling WdfRequestStopAcknowledge in E... 19 Feb 2007 07:50

ndis 6.0 miniport bluescreen after miniportinitializeex
Hi, I am writing a ndis 6.0 miniport driver. I install the driver from device manager. When installing, Miniportinitializeex is called. Before returning status from miniportinitializeex, I log a line with status. In WinDbg, I see this log line and then a bug check (IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL in ndis.sys). Has an... 17 Feb 2007 14:52

Quiet Install Using DPinst under XP
I'm trying to install some signed (Authenticode, not WHQL) PnP drivers under XP without the user being prompted for either the "non-WHQL" messages or the "find a driver" messages that are typical of PnP installs. I understand that if I had WHQL signed drivers, this would be supported, but under Vista this works... 23 Feb 2007 00:43

CreateFile and GetVolumeInformation fail
Hi there. I'm trying to get the informations - filesystem name, etc - of disk partition, and if unformatted volume, want to get like "unknown filesystem or unformatted". Also, I want to get the informations of partition which is formatted by linux filesystem and unmounted if linux filesystem driver is runni... 21 Feb 2007 09:35

NDIS Miniport with Stream interface
Hello all, I want to create an NDIS miniport driver with stream interface. Please tell me what should I do as discussed below? 1. Either I create a driver which exposes all DriverEntry(), XXX_Open(), XXX_Close(), XXX_Read() etc functions. I initialize miniport in DriverEntry() function. 2. Or I create a ... 22 Feb 2007 04:08

How to use IOCTL_USB_USER_REQUEST
Hi, Where you able to find any solutions for this? I am looking for some help on this IOCTL_USB_USER_REQUEST Thanks, Kumar "T.Masuda" wrote: I want to post USB request to our developing device. I found IOCTL_USB_USER_REQUEST in a DDK include file. It seems to be a control code for user mode ap... 12 Feb 2007 20:30