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Learng about drivers
In the threads I've asked about my BSODs, and the urls where I look up the error message, a lot of attention is pointed to drivers. I was under the impression that drivers were needed for hardware, but not for programs. Is that true? If it's programs too, shouldn't I be suspicious of any recently installed program. (I've been trying to recall what they were, but with little success. Drivers themselves would be dated the date they were written, not installed, Any way to figure out which drivers are newly installed? I find one list of about 100 drivers I have and another list of 200 I have. ;-( I've disabled most of my startup programs, using Anvir which is very convenient to use. Win10 runs in safe mode, but how do I bring some, but not all drivers back, to test which one is causing the problem? FWIW I'm writing th is from the win7 laptop. |
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Learng about drivers
micky wrote:
In the threads I've asked about my BSODs, and the urls where I look up the error message, a lot of attention is pointed to drivers. I was under the impression that drivers were needed for hardware, but not for programs. Is that true? If it's programs too, shouldn't I be suspicious of any recently installed program. (I've been trying to recall what they were, but with little success. Drivers themselves would be dated the date they were written, not installed, Any way to figure out which drivers are newly installed? I find one list of about 100 drivers I have and another list of 200 I have. ;-( I've disabled most of my startup programs, using Anvir which is very convenient to use. Win10 runs in safe mode, but how do I bring some, but not all drivers back, to test which one is causing the problem? FWIW I'm writing th is from the win7 laptop. Drivers run in Ring0, with the kernel. Ring0 is privileged. Drivers are limited, as to what code they can run. For example, you can't do a "printf" down there. I think Services run in Ring3, along with your applications. ******* This covers some debug steps, but Driver verifier remains the power tool of the lot. Driver verifier. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ot-stop-errors You need to find a "best practices" article, to select useful settings in there. There were probably a couple MPVs with opinions on this. Paul |
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