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How do you find out the INF file that is being used when you plug in a device in Windows

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Just because you change the signature to Windows NT doesn't magically transform the driver into an NT driver. The driver model that is used by Windows NT is significantly different from Windows 9x, different enough to require that many devices use completely different drivers for the two operating systems.

Granted, the error message is slightly confusing because XP is indeed "later" that Windows 95, but it is not a newer version of Windows 95. That would be either Windows 98 or Me. You need to find a driver that is written for Windows 2000 or XP, both based on the Windows NT code-base.

But if the driver's INF file that you have now has the signature $Windows 95$, then you can be sure that it is not an NT driver, and it will not magically become one by changing that to $Windows NT$.

As for general instruction on understanding and writing device drivers, check out the answers to these questions:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4288582/windows-nt-device-driver-development-book


• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3369160/best-book-for-learning-windows-device-driver-development

But fair warning: the driver model changed again in Windows Vista. If you want to write drivers for devices that run on Windows Vista and 7, you'll need to make sure that you're learning about the updated model. If you still need the drivers to support legacy operating systems like Windows 2000/XP, then you'll need to stick with an older resource that talks about those operating systems.

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  Raymon Chen is lucky not to have said what you said, because he would then have been wrong. It is, after all, not DOS+Windows 95 issuing the error message about the INF file, but the newer operating system in question itself, which was known to come after DOS+Windows 95 from the get-go.
  
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  WDM drivers work on both Win 9x and Windows XP. Also some classes of drivers had incompatible changes in Vista, but not all of them.
  
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Just because you change the signature to Windows NT doesn't magically transform the driver into an NT driver. The driver model that is used by Windows NT is significantly different from Windows 9x, different enough to require that many devices use completely different drivers for the two operating systems.

Granted, the error message is slightly confusing because XP is indeed "later" that Windows 95, but it is not a newer version of Windows 95. That would be either Windows 98 or Me. You need to find a driver that is written for Windows 2000 or XP, both based on the Windows NT code-base.

But if the driver's INF file that you have now has the signature $Windows 95$, then you can be sure that it is not an NT driver, and it will not magically become one by changing that to $Windows NT$.

As for general instruction on understanding and writing device drivers, check out the answers to these questions:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4288582/windows-nt-device-driver-development-book


• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3369160/best-book-for-learning-windows-device-driver-development

But fair warning: the driver model changed again in Windows Vista. If you want to write drivers for devices that run on Windows Vista and 7, you'll need to make sure that you're learning about the updated model. If you still need the drivers to support legacy operating systems like Windows 2000/XP, then you'll need to stick with an older resource that talks about those operating systems.

share|improve this answer

edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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answered Jun 27 '11 at 4:30

Cody GrayCody Gray

1,77711624

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Raymon Chen is lucky not to have said what you said, because he would then have been wrong. It is, after all, not DOS+Windows 95 issuing the error message about the INF file, but the newer operating system in question itself, which was known to come after DOS+Windows 95 from the get-go.
  
  – JdeBP
  Jun 27 '11 at 9:12
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  WDM drivers work on both Win 9x and Windows XP. Also some classes of drivers had incompatible changes in Vista, but not all of them.
  
  – John
  Jun 27 '11 at 21:24
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

0

Just because you change the signature to Windows NT doesn't magically transform the driver into an NT driver. The driver model that is used by Windows NT is significantly different from Windows 9x, different enough to require that many devices use completely different drivers for the two operating systems.

Granted, the error message is slightly confusing because XP is indeed "later" that Windows 95, but it is not a newer version of Windows 95. That would be either Windows 98 or Me. You need to find a driver that is written for Windows 2000 or XP, both based on the Windows NT code-base.

But if the driver's INF file that you have now has the signature $Windows 95$, then you can be sure that it is not an NT driver, and it will not magically become one by changing that to $Windows NT$.

As for general instruction on understanding and writing device drivers, check out the answers to these questions:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4288582/windows-nt-device-driver-development-book


• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3369160/best-book-for-learning-windows-device-driver-development

But fair warning: the driver model changed again in Windows Vista. If you want to write drivers for devices that run on Windows Vista and 7, you'll need to make sure that you're learning about the updated model. If you still need the drivers to support legacy operating systems like Windows 2000/XP, then you'll need to stick with an older resource that talks about those operating systems.

share|improve this answer

edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

Community♦

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answered Jun 27 '11 at 4:30

Cody GrayCody Gray

1,77711624

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Raymon Chen is lucky not to have said what you said, because he would then have been wrong. It is, after all, not DOS+Windows 95 issuing the error message about the INF file, but the newer operating system in question itself, which was known to come after DOS+Windows 95 from the get-go.
  
  – JdeBP
  Jun 27 '11 at 9:12
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  WDM drivers work on both Win 9x and Windows XP. Also some classes of drivers had incompatible changes in Vista, but not all of them.
  
  – John
  Jun 27 '11 at 21:24
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

Just because you change the signature to Windows NT doesn't magically transform the driver into an NT driver. The driver model that is used by Windows NT is significantly different from Windows 9x, different enough to require that many devices use completely different drivers for the two operating systems.

Granted, the error message is slightly confusing because XP is indeed "later" that Windows 95, but it is not a newer version of Windows 95. That would be either Windows 98 or Me. You need to find a driver that is written for Windows 2000 or XP, both based on the Windows NT code-base.

But if the driver's INF file that you have now has the signature $Windows 95$, then you can be sure that it is not an NT driver, and it will not magically become one by changing that to $Windows NT$.

As for general instruction on understanding and writing device drivers, check out the answers to these questions:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4288582/windows-nt-device-driver-development-book


• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3369160/best-book-for-learning-windows-device-driver-development

But fair warning: the driver model changed again in Windows Vista. If you want to write drivers for devices that run on Windows Vista and 7, you'll need to make sure that you're learning about the updated model. If you still need the drivers to support legacy operating systems like Windows 2000/XP, then you'll need to stick with an older resource that talks about those operating systems.

share|improve this answer

edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

Community♦

1

answered Jun 27 '11 at 4:30

Cody GrayCody Gray

1,77711624

share|improve this answer

edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

Community♦

1

answered Jun 27 '11 at 4:30

Cody GrayCody Gray

1,77711624

edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

Community♦

1

edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

Community♦

1

answered Jun 27 '11 at 4:30

Cody GrayCody Gray

1,77711624

answered Jun 27 '11 at 4:30

Cody GrayCody Gray

1,77711624