Introducing INF files for more applications

&http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/37954.html ">nbsp; INF file full Name information file, is the WINODWS operating system used to describe the equipment or files, such as data information files. The INF file is made up of standard ASCII code, and you can use any text editor to view the contents of the modification.

In general we always think that the INF file is a system device driver, in fact, this is the wrong understanding, windows in the installation of some hardware drivers prompted the need for INF file because the INF file for the device provides a comprehensive description of hardware parameters and the corresponding driver file (DLL file) information. Just like we look at the instructions to install the computer hardware, we are the Windows system, the manual is the INF file.

The INF file is powerful enough to perform almost every function of the day-to-day operation. You can think of it as a super batch at the bottom of a Windows system. Mastering and understanding even writing INF files requires a considerable understanding of their internal structure.

If I ask you what is an INF file? Maybe you can't say anything, but a lot of friends. inf files often appear when you install device drivers. In fact, the INF file is a file format created by Microsoft to make it easier for hardware manufacturers to publish device drivers. For the average user, it is at best understood and rarely applied. Then the INF file can provide us with more applications is a lot of friends very concerned about things, with such a query we in-depth study of INF files, found a lot of practical operations.

Easy identification of hardware information

Since the INF file is a file format created by Microsoft to facilitate the release of drivers by the device maker, we can view the types of its devices from. Figure 1 is a typical INF file, where the characters after "Class" in the "Version" section represent the device type, where media refers to multimedia preparation, which is generally the sound card. If the following characters are display (video card), Net (network card), modem (modem), Printer (printer), Image (camera) and so on.

In addition, the "Manufacturer" field describes the manufacturer, for example, the sound card manufacturer represented in Figure 1 is c-media. Also from the INF file name can be seen on the device manufacturer or type, such as the author opened the figure 1 file name is CM686, and the sound card model relative class, and the optical drive information is stored in the Cdrom.inf, hardware information is stored in the Disk.inf file.