call to an Exe through driver

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Hi to all,
I am new to driver developement, and want to know
that how can i call an Exe through my driver. For this purpose should
i use filesystem filter driver or any other driver or should i use
Toaster. I have an IFS kit for that, as i have seen through filemon
that whenever i do something on the window some exe’s and dll are get
called.

Thanks in advance
Manish

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This is a FAQ basically you don’t call an application from your driver. You
have a helper application or service that calls into your driver and waits
for a request. OSR had a good article on this
http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=94

Now as to your question of type of driver, what is your driver for? The
need to call an application has little relavance on the type of driver you
need.

–
Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
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“Manish Sharma” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> Hi to all,
> I am new to driver developement, and want to know
> that how can i call an Exe through my driver. For this purpose should
> i use filesystem filter driver or any other driver or should i use
> Toaster. I have an IFS kit for that, as i have seen through filemon
> that whenever i do something on the window some exe’s and dll are get
> called.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Manish
>

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Why do you need it?

The usual way is to have either a service or the app executed by Run key,
which will talk to your driver and do the necessary things when the driver will
want so.

Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com

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> Hi to all,
> I am new to driver developement, and want to know
> that how can i call an Exe through my driver. For this purpose should
> i use filesystem filter driver or any other driver or should i use
> Toaster. I have an IFS kit for that, as i have seen through filemon
> that whenever i do something on the window some exe’s and dll are get
> called.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Manish
>
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