Find missing drivers windows 7

[donlauer]

Using w7 home premium 64bit I have

windows\system32\drivers\npfs.sys

I am missing

windows\system32\drivers\npf.sys

I am getting literally thousands of the following error messages continuously in my boot log.

"Did not load driver \SystemRoot\SysWow64\drivers\NPF.sys"

npf.sys also does not appear in \syswow64\drivers at all

 

[inzone]

If you are missing all those files then you need to install Windows again or you have a pirated copy of Windows and all the files were not copied onto it.

 

[Emerald]

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-system/npfssys-is-crashing-on-my-computer-how-do-i-repair/58dce8bc-af1d-473a-ba9c-c1eb39409a8b

 

[donlauer]

I solved this problem by installing winpcap software. This software contains the NPF.sys driver. This solves the problem. I could not find out if NPF.sys was a Windows 7 default driver. It was never on my system and it was not loaded from counterfeit software unless Tigerdirect is now selling counterfeit software. I had previously posed this same question on several other forums and was given basically the same answer everywhere. So I still do not know if NPF.sys is installed on other versions of windows 7 software and just not on w7home premium OEM.


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