Windows 10: How to Export Drivers using DISM in Windows 11

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Drivers are one of the most critical parts of the Operating System, allowing interfaces and hardware to talk. If you don’t install the OEMs driver, Microsoft uses the generic drivers, but it will still miss the custom functionality. Along with this, many develop custom drivers for their hardware. That said, Windows offers a built-in way […]

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DISM - Add or Remove Drivers on an Offline Image


Ah I thought you might be doing the DISM/drivers one.

It is good info and I use parts of this frequently when I'm reinstalling on my old hardware and need to manually add drivers.

I would suggest DISM /Get-Drivers as an alternate to the Powershell step in 2.2 - the table format is quite useful I find.

One method of applying the drivers I tried which seems to work (not sure how valid it is) when clean-installing a machine as a one-off:

1. Export drivers as per Step 2
2. Use DISM /Get-Drivers to show which driver is which, and copy only the ones I know are problematic to a subfolder, and add this subfolder to a bootable Windows 10 Setup USB
3. Boot Windows 10 Setup from the USB
4. Open a command prompt with Shift F10, type command 'wpeutil shutdown' but don't press enter. Instead, Alt-Tab back to Setup
5. Follow the normal clean install process, delete partitions and let it install the relevant edition
6. When it says Restarting in a few seconds, quickly Alt-Tab to the command prompt and press enter, to stop it restarting but shut down instead
7. Boot again from the USB, go straight into Shift-F10, and use DISM /add-driver to add relevant drivers to the offline Windows drive as per Step 4
8. wpeutil shutdown again, and let it restart this time, so that Windows boots and finishes configuring itself with the new drivers available to it.

I found it easier than Mounting the image and also means I don't change the .WIM so I can use that on other hardware without fear of non-standard (and probably quite old) drivers getting in the way .

Although in some cases I could install and change it once Windows is up and running , one of 1709's default drivers causes a BSOD during installation itself, if I don't add the alternative manually using the above technique before it gets to that point.

But it's not a technique I've seen anywhere else so I'm probably bending the rules somewhere. *Wink

 

Unlocked Realtek HD Audio Drivers Windows 7 & 8 (With Dolby Digital Live and DTS Interactive)

DTS supported natively by Windows 8/8.1 and it should work on windows 10 too just DDL require to unlock your driver .

 

IE 11 Cannot Import from Edge

Hi Nicholas,

As a workaround, we suggest you to export favorites from Microsoft Edge into a .html file and afterwards, import the .html file to Internet Explorer 11.

Here are the steps:

• Open Microsoft Edge.
• Click on the three horizontal dots on the upper-right corner of the Microsoft Edge window, and then click on
  Settings.
• Under Favorites, click on the View favorites settings.
• Under Import or export a file, click on Export to file.
• Select the folder where you want to save the .html file of your Microsoft Edge favorites, and then
  Save.

Once you have the .html file of your Microsoft Edge favorites, follow the steps below on how to import them to Internet Explorer 11.

• Open Internet Explorer 11.
• On the menu bar, click on File, and then click on Import and export.
• In the Import/Export Settings window, select Import from a file, and then click on
  Next.
• In the next window, click on the checkbox for Favorites, and then click
  Next.
• Browse and open the .html file you want to import, and then click Next.
• Select Favorites to import to, and then click Import.
• Once done, click on Finish.

Hope this helps.