Is there a way to manually incorporate or install a bunch of drivers on a Windows 7 machine without going through Device Manager and without the hardware actually being installed?
Example: I’d like my Windows 7 machine to have the device driver for a Broadcom and Intel NIC even though the machine only has an Intel network adapter installed. Likewise, I’d like to have an NVIDIA and Intel video card driver available even though I only have one installed. Or have drivers for three different chipsets installed. Or install all drivers for a specific HP computer and all drivers for a specific Dell computer. Get the picture?
This way, when I deploy my OS to a machine that has the custom hardware I have installed I no longer have to install the device drivers. I tried installing it by running the .exe or .msi files from the manufacturer but some won't install because the hardware doesn't exist. I also tried going through Device Manager and manually adding it but got the same results since there is no hardware to find. I'm guessing there might be a way to manually copy the .inf, .sys, etc files to some System32 directory and then registering .dll files manually--or something like that.
Please don’t ask me why, tell me it will screw up my system or not to do it, or recommend an alternative solution. I know exactly what I want and that’s what I want.
Thanks!
Example: I’d like my Windows 7 machine to have the device driver for a Broadcom and Intel NIC even though the machine only has an Intel network adapter installed. Likewise, I’d like to have an NVIDIA and Intel video card driver available even though I only have one installed. Or have drivers for three different chipsets installed. Or install all drivers for a specific HP computer and all drivers for a specific Dell computer. Get the picture?
This way, when I deploy my OS to a machine that has the custom hardware I have installed I no longer have to install the device drivers. I tried installing it by running the .exe or .msi files from the manufacturer but some won't install because the hardware doesn't exist. I also tried going through Device Manager and manually adding it but got the same results since there is no hardware to find. I'm guessing there might be a way to manually copy the .inf, .sys, etc files to some System32 directory and then registering .dll files manually--or something like that.
Please don’t ask me why, tell me it will screw up my system or not to do it, or recommend an alternative solution. I know exactly what I want and that’s what I want.
Thanks!
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