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Checking if a particular device driver is loaded

I'm trying to work out if I can check if a particular video card device driver is loaded in Windows Server 2003 using C++. Can anyone give me pointers on how I might achieve this?

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Use EnumDeviceDrivers - there's an example here.

anon  2009-04-15 10:44:30
Thanks for the link - quick question though, where do I get psapi.h from?
C.McAtackney  2009-04-15 11:00:43
It's part of what Microsoft call the Platform SDK - it should be part of recent MS development environments and it is also available separately from MS.
anon  2009-04-15 12:45:16
Hi Neil,I'm getting the following error when trying to compile the example you linked to;Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _GetDeviceDriverBaseNameW@12 referenced in function _main DriverChecker.obj DriverCheckerAny idea what might be causing this?
C.McAtackney  2009-04-15 14:30:42
GetDeviceDriverBasename is part of the same library as EnumDeviceDrivers, so if one works, so should the other - I'm afraid I don't have an answer to this!
anon  2009-04-15 15:08:51
Sorry, the other one isn't working either - should have included that too;error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _GetDeviceDriverBaseNameW@12 referenced in function _mainerror LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _EnumDeviceDrivers@12 referenced in function _main
C.McAtackney  2009-04-16 08:36:08

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