How to change default driver in XP?

[snoturtle]

Hello all 🙂

Is it possible to change the driver that windows wants to load when I device is plugged in?

Like when you plug in a thumb drive it loads the mass storage driver, is it possible to force it to load another driver?


Thanks for any and all help

 

[RebateMonger]

You could try Windows "Device Manager" after the device is connected and "Update" the driver to something else. I don't know if it'll work for something as generic as a "Mass Storage Device", though.

 

[snoturtle]

Thats what we are doing now

The problem is things get plugged in 50-100 times per day across 4 different machines

Would be nice if I could just change the default one for the one that gets used all of the time

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: snoturtle
Hello all 🙂

Is it possible to change the driver that windows wants to load when I device is plugged in?

Like when you plug in a thumb drive it loads the mass storage driver, is it possible to force it to load another driver?


Thanks for any and all help

You can. There are files in the Windows directory that are parsed every time you plug in a device, and the deviceID of the device, if it matches the string in those files, forces that file's parameters (configuration settings) to be used. Change the file, change the parameters, and you can change what drivers, etc. get used.

I do have to ask though - if you are putting the right drivers in place for a given device, and the deviceID is a better match for the device than the generic in-box drivers, then why isn't that (newer driver you added) already being used?

 

[snoturtle]

Will have to look into that to see how easy it would be

This is actually for where I work fixing cameras and camcorders

To do adjustments after the camera has been worked on it needs its own driver

Right now we use 98 which doesn't need to change drivers but we need to move to XP which defaults to a the mass storage driver when you plug in a camera