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How can I manually load/unload a driver in Windows Vista?
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I think one of my drivers is causing some of my Windows Vista machines to boot extremely slow. Since the perf log is basically no help, I want to try manually unloading/loading drivers to see if any take a considerable amount of time to start up. How can I do this?
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Drivers and Services have a very similiar control interface in Windows. You can set the "Start" value on their entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services to "Disabled", reboot, and see how the machine does booting w/o that driver …
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