Software Deployment

Here is a fairly simple method to add drivers to the computers PnP list. If someone has the ability could this be added to the PNP Driver Install Template?

The sticky thread "PNP Driver Install Template" is not very useful unless you use Wise installer. I finally gave up on the whole msi thing and started looking in other areas. Here is what I found, pretty simple solution using a VBscript on startup. All that is needed is the driver files copied to the computer (I put them in C:\windows\inf\) and the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ String Value = "DevicePath" appended to have the path to this folder. Restart and windows will automatically create a new .pnf for this driver and install the device automatically when it is plugged in.

Here's the script:

Option Explicit
On Error Resume Next
set oshell=wscript.createobject("wscript.shell")
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If Not objFSO.FolderExists("C:\WINDOWS\inf\WPC100") then
objFSO.CopyFolder "\\networkshare\WPC100","C:\WINDOWS\inf\WPC100",True
end if

Dim oShell, keyToPlayWith, oldKeyVal, newKeyVal, stringToAppend, finalReadToTest

keyToPlayWith = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DevicePath"
stringToAppend = "C:\windows\inf\wpc100;"
oldKeyVal = oShell.RegRead(keyToPlayWith)
IF InStr(oldKeyVal,stringToAppend) = 0 THEN
newKeyVal = oldKeyVal & stringToAppend

oShell.RegWrite keyToPlayWith,newKeyVal,"REG_EXPAND_SZ"

finalReadToTest = oShell.RegRead(keyToPlayWith)

if finalReadToTest = newKeyVal
end if