installing a driver using devcon

hello,

i have a weird behavior i don't understand -
i'm using devcon in order to install a software driver. when i put the
sys and inf file in any folder (even hidden) everything is ok, but when
i put them in the c:\windows\inf file there is a pop up asking for the
sys file (and when i direct it to the inf folder it installs it).
why is that? how do i solve that?

thank you,

Gary
Tue Mar 07 10:37:53 CST 2006

\windows\inf is where it renames your file to oemX.inf, compiles it, and
saves the pnf. Sorry but you have made a weird assumption that you have
possesion of that path. Once the install is completed, the system uses the
INF/PNF files by their new OemX file names.

Don't put your install files in \windows\inf. It's a SYSTEM repository.

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Gary G. Little

<etimor@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> hello,
>
> i have a weird behavior i don't understand -
> i'm using devcon in order to install a software driver. when i put the
> sys and inf file in any folder (even hidden) everything is ok, but when
> i put them in the c:\windows\inf file there is a pop up asking for the
> sys file (and when i direct it to the inf folder it installs it).
> why is that? how do i solve that?
>
> thank you,
>