how to check if a driver beem installed

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Hi, I have NT4.0 system, and I want to programmatically to check if my
driver for a adapter card been installed in the system. How do I do that?
Do I have to use CreateFile() function to see if I can open it? Is there
other way to check it? Since my program has to check all the adapter cards
(over 10 different network vendor cards), if any of these cards is plugged
into my NT4.0 system, I first checked if the driver for that card
installed, if not, I installed it programmatically. Any idea?

Thanks.
Prune.

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Use the Service control manager API. Look for OpenSCManager in the online
docs.

Gary

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Subject: [ntdev] how to check if a driver beem
installed

Hi, I have NT4.0 system, and I want to programmatically to
check if my
driver for a adapter card been installed in the system. How
do I do that?
Do I have to use CreateFile() function to see if I can open
it? Is there
other way to check it? Since my program has to check all the
adapter cards
(over 10 different network vendor cards), if any of these
cards is plugged
into my NT4.0 system, I first checked if the driver for that
card
installed, if not, I installed it programmatically. Any
idea?

Thanks.
Prune.

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