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Some Windows 10 versions Network Setup Service will keep the network adapter name when a user updates the network driver.
Symptom: When a user installs the network adapter driver, the network adapter will be assigned a...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 12/22/2017
Troubleshoot PnP device issue through Debug Trace from PnP Manager
The PnP Manager is a key component of the Windows Kernel.There had been lots of PnP device related...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 06/29/2015
The Errata in Windows HLK/HCK and WLK
It had been many years when the Windows HardwareCompatibility Program and Windows Hardware...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 06/29/2015
Decode ETL file generated by Manifest-based ETW Provider from different machine
ETW is a powerful trace method in Windows platform. See following articles about the ETW: Improve...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 05/29/2015
No Guarded Mutex in Win8?
As the MSDN article “Fast Mutexes and Guarded Mutexes” says, Starting with Windows 8,...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
Driver signature consideration for XP and Vista+
HCK8.0 will retire on Nov. 30. But HCK8.1 doesn't support Vista and XP test, what should I do for XP...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
Useful links for HCK
Windows Hardware Certification Kit QFE...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
How to setup to collect Memory Dump?
A kernel dump gets created every time a machine has a kernel fault. This dump gets stored in the...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
How to make a partition on a RAW USB flash disk by programming?
Briefly, here are the steps:1. Use CreateFile to open PhysicalDriveX, that is the USB Flash disk2....
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
Removal Policy for a Device
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
USB Event Tracking (ETW log in USB Core Stack)
Background:=========Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) In Windows 7, ETW provides an event logging...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
unsigned IM(passthru) driver cannot bind to newly installed NIC
- unsigned IM(passthru) driver cannot bind to newly installed NIC2. Uninstall a NIC in Device...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
WDF Logo Requirements Regarding Coinstallers
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
USB Port busy, or not?
How to detect USB Port status connected with a USB Flash drive? (working or idle). It seems no APIs...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
MDL
https://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=423An MDL is a structure that describes the fixed physical...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
How to Get PCMCIA Socket Information
The sample code performs the following steps:Uses the IoGetDeviceObjectPointer function to obtain...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
Banned API in Windows
https://download.microsoft.com/download/2/e/b/2ebac853-63b7-49b4-b66f-9fd85f37c0f5/banned.h/****...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
How to get NIC MAC address
Here is a good reference, Thanks...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
Error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "char * __stdcall _com_util::ConvertBSTRToString(wchar_t *)"
Error 2 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "char * __stdcall...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
How to "Refresh" Device Manager by programming
We are talking about: Device Manager->Action->Scan for hardware changesThe following CM APIs...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
USB Device ENUMERATION PROCESS
( Copy From Microchip AN1003) The following summarizes the steps involved in theenumeration of a USB...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
Composite USB device
A device that contains more than one interface descriptor is known as a composite USB device. Each...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
PnP Device Installation
- Plug the device into the computer.2. The device is enumerated. the bus driver notifies the...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
Display JPG in ATL
• Tools: VC2005 (ATL8.0)• 2 possible ways:1. using the OleLoadPicture function and the...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
How does the System Find and Load Drivers?
- PnP device It has an electronic signature that bus driver can detect the new hardware 2. Legacy...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
Safely Remove Hardware
Invoke the Safely Remove Hardware Dialog:RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll First...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
How to test an unsigned driver ?
The recommendation is test-sign your driver...Installing an Unsigned Driver during Development and...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
Overview of Signing and Install Process
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa906274.aspxKernel-Mode Code Signing Requirements for...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
Test Unit Ready (TUR)
The SCSI Test Unit Ready command is used to determine if a device is ready to transfer data...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
How to remove phantom/ghost devices
*What is phantom device? Hidden, inactive deives, ghost devices. When a device is physically removed...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
Run program as Local System Account
To delete registry keys under Vista+... This article which demonstrates the use of PSTools from...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
To ignore a USB device's serial number
https://www.lvr.com/usbfaq.htmDuring device testing, we attach many devices that are identical except...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
Get installed hotfixes list in Windows
Here is a command: wmic qfe list full you should see output like this: C:\windows\system32>wmic...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
"CTS" is not supported by USBSer.sys?
The usbser.sys assumes that the device has always signaled CTS.The RTS/CTS hardware handshaking is...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
Layered Driver Architecture
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms791644.aspxLayered Driver ArchitectureWindows operating...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013
MaximumTransferSize is obsolete after Win2000
MaximumTransferSize member of the USBD_PIPE_INFORMATION structure is obsolete after Win2000. Systems...
Author: Microsoft APGC Hardware Developer Support Team Date: 11/09/2013