How to unlock system protected file ?

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Hi

I found serial.sys has been locked by system , so I cannot replace it by my
sample
code built serial.sys .

Is there any way to unlock some built-in generic driver in Windows XP and
Vista ?

Thank you .
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Re: How to unlock system protected file ? by chris

chris
Mon May 05 09:01:10 CDT 2008

On May 5, 1:51 am, Kid <K...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I found serial.sys has been locked by system , so I cannot replace it by my
> sample
> code built serial.sys .
>
> Is there any way to unlock some built-in generic driver in Windows XP and
> Vista ?

The oft-recommended way is to go into the Services\serial key in the
registry and change ImagePath to point to something else.
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Re: How to unlock system protected file ? by Tim

Tim
Tue May 06 00:32:18 CDT 2008

Kid <Kid@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>I found serial.sys has been locked by system , so I cannot replace it by my
>sample code built serial.sys .

You shouldn't be replacing serial.sys anyway. It doesn't belong to you.
What are you really trying to do here?
--
Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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