I also found this C# code example with P/Invokes to the setupapi.dll, but I'm not sure if this API provides a function to determine if a driver it's third-party. Pnputil.exe /export-driver * 'full path of folder' In the same way, I found these programs that will export/backup only the third-party installed drivers:ĭism.exe /online /export-driver /destination:'full path of folder' If the -All parameter is not specified, Get-WindowsDriver it only lists the third-party installed drivers. If you do not specify this parameter, only third-party drivers and listed. I found that the PowerShell's Get-WindowsDriver cmdlet serves to list all the installed drivers (driver name, type, version, path, etc) and it has the -All parameter:ĭisplays information about default drivers. It is any driver that you download and install after you have installed Windows.įor example all these are my third-party installed drivers:

My question is: being able to identify a installed driver by for example its ClassGuid property from Win32_PnPSignedDriver class, how can I determine whether that specific driver it's a third-party driver or it is not?.īy third-party drivers I mean drivers that are not built into the Windows system image (Install.wim).

I found these WMI classes from which in combination I think I could retrieve all the installed drivers and useful information including the directory path: Win32_SystemDriver, Win32_PnPSignedDriver, Win32_PnPEntity, Win32_PnPSignedDriverCIMDataFileīut I can't figure how to determine if a driver its a third-party driver or it is not. In C# or VB.NET, I would like to retrieve a list of third-party installed drivers.

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