Windows 10: Can I move a special driver to the corresponding prog install.folder?

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  1. TOBWEN
    tobwen Win User

    Can I move a special driver to the corresponding prog install.folder?


    Assume I install a program with the "normal" setup package.
    The setup.exe does not only copy the files into the main installation folder but also some special drivers into
    the official Windows directories

    C:\Windows\
    or
    C:\Windows\System32\
    or
    C:\Windows\SysWOW64\

    No Registry changes are made.

    Now I want to make the program portable.

    Can I somehow move the driver files e.g. "myprog123.sys" to the installation folder and let Windows resp. the program search them there (at first)?

    Putting a dot in front of the PATH environment variable:

    PATH=.;someotherpathes

    does not help.
    Any other solution?

    At the end I would like to put everything on an USB flash drive and run the program on various computers without installation.

    :)
     
    tobwen, Feb 8, 2021
    #1
  2. MUSEK
    musek Win User

    ATI Driver install problems

    Hi!

    There seems to be a kind of a mess after deletion of your current driver.
    Have you tried step-by-step drivers update procedure including Driver Sweeper, deleting Prefetch and Temp folders, etc?
     
    musek, Feb 8, 2021
    #2
  3. FOX34
    Fox34 Win User
    I cant get drivers to install

    Read my guide, goes step buy step for nvidia driver install. Though I use a different driver cause I got 8 series, same method of installation
     
    Fox34, Feb 8, 2021
    #3
  4. BRANDONWH64
    brandonwh64 Win User

    Can I move a special driver to the corresponding prog install.folder?

    Windows 7 wont install drivers

    +1

    If you having an issue installing a driver that worked before you formatted or wont install on a fresh build, sometimes this means hardware damage
     
    brandonwh64, Feb 8, 2021
    #4
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