Location of inpout32.sys and inpoutx64.sys
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:41 am
We use inpout32.dll in a free amateur radio app with 5000+ users. Great improvement over dlportio !
Recently, we had a user who installed and ran our software on Windows 7 without having Administrator privileges. As you can imagine, it took forever to figure out why he couldn't access his LPT port. We would like to prevent this from happening in the future, but don't want to automatically run our app with Admin privileges. Instead, we want to check for the existence of inpout32.sys and inpoutx64.sys. If they don't exist, then prompt the user to restart, running with Admin privs. For 32 bit systems, is inpout32.sys always in %windir%/System32/Drivers ? And for 64 bit XP, Vista and Windows 7, where is inpoutx64.sys ? Once inpout32.sys or inpoutx64.sys have been correctly installed, do our users need to continue to run as Admin ?
Thanks,
Steve
Recently, we had a user who installed and ran our software on Windows 7 without having Administrator privileges. As you can imagine, it took forever to figure out why he couldn't access his LPT port. We would like to prevent this from happening in the future, but don't want to automatically run our app with Admin privileges. Instead, we want to check for the existence of inpout32.sys and inpoutx64.sys. If they don't exist, then prompt the user to restart, running with Admin privs. For 32 bit systems, is inpout32.sys always in %windir%/System32/Drivers ? And for 64 bit XP, Vista and Windows 7, where is inpoutx64.sys ? Once inpout32.sys or inpoutx64.sys have been correctly installed, do our users need to continue to run as Admin ?
Thanks,
Steve