Windows – How to start Windows system drivers on the fly

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A list of windows' system drivers are listed in msinfo32 under Software Environment. Like the Windows services list (run services.msc), it shows which drivers are started and their start mode (boot, manual or system).

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Does anyone know how one can start a system driver that is set to manual without changing it to start every time you boot your system?

Probably isn't relevant, but I am on Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit) and the driver I would like to start is the NetGroup Packet Filter Driver (NPF) that is used by WinPCap.

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You can probably start it from an admin command prompt - net start xxx or sc start xxx, where xxx is the service name. You can get the service name from the msinfo32. Not guaranteed to work if there are dependencies.

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Windows – Installing Npcap on Windows 10

The issue were old Npcap drivers in Windows driver store file repository. For reasons beyond my knowledge neither the installation or removal procedure detected them.

While I'm not completely sure how, these leftovers blocked installation of full Ncap driver suite. To remove them I used following batch script (from Jonatan Van Hove):

@echo off
for /L %%A in (1,1,300) do (
  echo Deleting OEM%%A.INF
  pnputil /d OEM%%A.INF
)

Afterwards I simply reinstalled Wireshark, to find it's functionality restored. So far I haven't encountered any further issues.

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