Two Minute Drill: DriverQuery.exe

re: Two Minute Drill: DriverQuery.exe

Pronichkin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:36:51 GMT

You can do it today by querying WMI from Windows PowerShell. For instance, you could use the “Win32_PnPSignedDriver” class (msdn.microsoft.com/.../aa394354) or find something more appropriate.

re: Two Minute Drill: DriverQuery.exe

Blake Morrison - MSFT — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:12:16 GMT

Good question, to which if I knew I could not answer. Sorry!

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Heb — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:17:05 GMT

Nice tool. Can we expect it to be merged with Powershell one day ?

re: Two Minute Drill: DriverQuery.exe

Pronichkin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:45:51 GMT

Unfortunately, when it comes to “check... the latest hotfix” it surprisengly becomes a very tough task. For instance, for Hyper-V I'm maintaining such a list: social.technet.microsoft.com/.../3150.aspx. The same is true for clustering: social.technet.microsoft.com/.../3153.aspx. But for other Windows components there are no such lists. So it becomes increadingly hard to determine which exactly hotfix is the “latest” to date.

re: Two Minute Drill: DriverQuery.exe

Alex — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:41:45 GMT

Yes, I agree. I meant that if you need to update, say mrxsmb20.sys on a file server, you can quickly check which version is currently installed and compare it to the version in the latest hotfix. :)

re: Two Minute Drill: DriverQuery.exe

Pronichkin — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:14:04 GMT

DriverQuery is a nice tool but it's read-only by definition. If you need to modify something (e.g. update or replace a driver) using command-line interface you go either with PNPUtil or DevCon. Please see social.technet.microsoft.com/.../how-to-manage-device-drivers-with-command-line.aspx for features and differences.

re: Two Minute Drill: DriverQuery.exe

Alex — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:49:15 GMT

Great tool that let's you quickly check the current version of any driver. Very handy when you want to upgrade a system driver and want to compare the currently installed ones with the ones in a hotfix!