[sclug] How to detect where Microsoft installs its drivers

Alan Pope alan at popey.com
Wed Apr 26 04:07:37 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 20:23 +0200, pieter claassen wrote:
> I have a USR5421 MAXg Wireless USB adaptor that looks very cool and I
> really want it work.
> 
> However, ndiswrapper doesnt support it yet. What is worse is that USR
> packaged the driver with some smart installer and I cannot see where it
> installed its drivers.
> 
> Short of using tripwire, is there a quick way to detect where Microsoft
> installed stuff?
> 

Filemon from sysinternals? I've found it invaluable for finding out
where stuff goes and what the hell Windows is doing.

Cheers,
Al.

[0] http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html
[1] http://www.sysinternals.com/



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