Is it possible to provide help file in the INF

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Hi ALL,

Is it possible to provide the help file (html or .hlp or .chm, etc) in the .inf installation file while installing the driver. If, so how can I do? Kindly help.

Regards,
Srinivasa Raghavan.

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Not sure that you want to do this, as changes to the driver inf will require that your driver package be resigned and all.

I would recommend leaving the driver inf to things that are strictly required for the driver itself, and using a more robust and less painful installer system for the rest of it.

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Hi ALL,

Is it possible to provide the help file (html or .hlp or .chm, etc) in the .inf installation file while installing the driver. If, so how can I do? Kindly help.

Regards,
Srinivasa Raghavan.

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Ken Johnson,

Thanks for the response!!!

Can it be done through coinstaller? if so, how?

The objective is to provide help information for the Advanced Property Sheet.

Thanks and Regards,

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xxxxx@yahoo.com wrote:

Thanks for the response!!!

Can it be done through coinstaller? if so, how?

The objective is to provide help information for the Advanced Property Sheet.

Well, it’s just a file, so if you are committed to making it part of the
driver package, just do so, and have the INF copy the file to
windows\system32. Your property sheet has to know where to find it.

–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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Thanks Tim,

is it possible to get the control of Advanced Property Sheet Tab, how?

I have a coinstaller, help file. I can have control over the customised property page, but not the default property sheet (General/Advanced Property sheet).

Regards,
Srinivasa Raghavan.

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Is this for a network card advanced parameters page?

–PA

xxxxx@yahoo.com wrote:

Ken Johnson,

Thanks for the response!!!

Can it be done through coinstaller? if so, how?

The objective is to provide help information for the Advanced Property Sheet.

Thanks and Regards,

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Yes!!!

-Srinivasa Raghavan

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xxxxx@yahoo.com wrote:

Yes!!!

-Srinivasa Raghavan

If you want a property page like in Intel drivers,
have a look at their INFs and usermode DLLs included in the driver
package. That should give you an idea how they substitute the standard
Advanced page with their own.

Regards,
–PA

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Thank you very much, Pavel

-Srinivasa Raghavan