NeverReboot on install of FileSystemFilterDriver

NTFSD
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Hi.

I am in the process of modifying an installer that installs a file system filter driver. Currently this is done via the rundll32 call…
rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %AppFolder%\FileSystemFilterDriver\FileSystemFilterDriver.inf

I want this action to install the driver and NOT promot a reboot but whenever I change the reboot mode to 0 or 128 it still prompts for a reboot.

Does anyone have any suggestions ?

Does installing a file system filter driver always force a prompt for reboot regardless ?

Regards
Steve Williams

2

Is this a minifilter or full file system filter?
I never get a reboot when I install a file system minifilter using the
method that you are using.

Bill Wandel

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Hi.

I am in the process of modifying an installer that installs a file system
filter driver. Currently this is done via the rundll32 call…
rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132
%AppFolder%\FileSystemFilterDriver\FileSystemFilterDriver.inf

I want this action to install the driver and NOT promot a reboot but
whenever I change the reboot mode to 0 or 128 it still prompts for a reboot.

Does anyone have any suggestions ?

Does installing a file system filter driver always force a prompt for reboot
regardless ?

Regards
Steve Williams

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3

Thanks for the reply…

As far as I am aware it is a just a mini-filter…
I didn’t write it originally but have been lumbered with supporting it.

It must be something else in the instalation process then that is causing this reboot.

Regards.

4

What is the value of StartType in the inf file?
wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntfsd…
> Thanks for the reply…
>
> As far as I am aware it is a just a mini-filter…
> I didn’t write it originally but have been lumbered with supporting it.
>
> It must be something else in the instalation process then that is causing
> this reboot.
>
> Regards.
>

5

Steve,

my recommendation is to use Setup API’s like SetupInstallFilesFromInfSection
along with File queue. this will user a very nice installation experience.

you can also try driver installation package , I am not sure if it works
for a file system filter driver though.

regards,
Vijay

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Subject: [ntfsd] NeverReboot on install of FileSystemFilterDriver

> Hi.
>
>
> I am in the process of modifying an installer that installs a file system
> filter driver. Currently this is done via the rundll32 call…
> rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132
> %AppFolder%\FileSystemFilterDriver\FileSystemFilterDriver.inf
>
> I want this action to install the driver and NOT promot a reboot but
> whenever I change the reboot mode to 0 or 128 it still prompts for a
> reboot.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions ?
>
> Does installing a file system filter driver always force a prompt for
> reboot regardless ?
>
> Regards
> Steve Williams
>
> —
> NTFSD is sponsored by OSR
>
> For our schedule of debugging and file system seminars
> (including our new fs mini-filter seminar) visit:
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6

The value of StartType in the inf file is 0.

7

And I’m assuming that changing that to (say) 3 changes the behavior.

I have never been able to work around that, although I haven’t tried too
hard since I usually need the reboot for other reasons and I just ignore the
warnings when I am developing.

Rod

8

Hi there…

I was thinking along the same lines so changed it (StartType) to 3 and it stopped the Reboot prompt…
I had to reset this to 0 later in the installation process to ensure that the filter driver stated correctly on a reboot but that sorted it out…

Many thanks for all that commented.

Steve.