Articles Tagged “Device Driver”
3 articles tagged “Device Driver”, newest first.
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The Depths of Windows I/O (Part 6, Final) — How Minifilters Work and Investigating Slow I/O with Procmon
Explains how minifilters monitor and control file I/O: FltMgr, altitudes, pre/post callbacks, fltmc, finding slow operations in Procmon, plus exclusion and D...
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The Depths of Windows I/O (Part 1) — Every Read and Write Becomes an IRP: The Big Picture of the I/O System
Part 1 of a series on Windows I/O from the ground up: the Object Manager namespace, the driver, device and file objects, the IRP lifecycle, and what CloseHan...
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How to Work with USB Devices from a Windows App — Choosing Between virtual COM, HID, WinUSB, and Vendor SDKs
A comparison of four ways to control equipment and USB devices from a Windows application: virtual COM port, HID, WinUSB, and vendor SDKs. We cover whether a...