Manually loading a service in XP

[RMSe17]

I run sysinternals utility called Autoruns, and it shows me all kinds of stuff that windows loads at startup. There is a section HKLM\System\CurrentControl\Set\Services
that has a bunch of .sys files listed. How do I load one of them manually, after windows is already running? I assume I can type something in command console to load them, like.. how does the OS load them? But I have no idea how. Anyone know?

Thanks,
RMSe17

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: RMSe17
I run sysinternals utility called Autoruns, and it shows me all kinds of stuff that windows loads at startup. There is a section HKLM\System\CurrentControl\Set\Services
that has a bunch of .sys files listed. How do I load one of them manually, after windows is already running? I assume I can type something in command console to load them, like.. how does the OS load them? But I have no idea how. Anyone know?
Thanks,
RMSe17

You don't as those are drivers, you need to call the api to load a driver. What exactly are you trying to start? Generally those drivers (if not already started) are started by the applications that use them. Just randomly 'starting' one shouldn't really do anything usefull.