CHAPTER W1 Device Driver Tweaks

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Tell Windows to Ignore Unsigned Device Drivers

• Configure Windows to Always Check for Device Drivers Online

• Write a Complete List of Device Drivers to a Text File

A device driver is a tiny chunk of programming code that serves as a kind of middleman between Windows and a particular device. For example, if Windows needs a device to do something, it alerts the device driver, and the device driver passes the request along in language that the device understands. Similarly, if a device has data or some other feedback for Windows, it first passes that data to the device driver, and the driver passes it to Windows.

For most folks, device drivers exist in the nether regions of the PC world, shrouded ...

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