The method of XP prohibiting automatic installation of drivers
Ignore digital signature:
1 The drivers of devices are generally digitally signed by Microsoft Lab. Because of joining this club, some small enterprises of equipment will not take the initiative to sign drivers, but these drivers are necessary for the normal operation of equipment. At this point, you can set to ignore the digital signature in the operating system: Start? Control panel? system
2 system attributes? Hardware? Driver signature
3 driver's signature? There are three options: ignore, warn and block. If you have your own driver (the operating system cannot be installed correctly, and the wrong device driver is always installed), you can choose to ignore or warn if you don't install the digital signature program. Of course.
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Delete drive backup:
Windows XP comes with a large number of hardware drivers. When the operating system detects new hardware, the system will automatically extract the corresponding driver for installation. In fact, in most cases, users rarely change their hardware configuration, so when they are sure that all the required hardware drivers have been installed, they can delete the driver backup files. Enter the directory of system disk C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386, find the compressed file named Driver.cab, and delete it. This will free up about 73MB of hard disk space. If the system can't find the driver when installing new hardware in the future, you can extract it from the installation CD (the most matching driver) that comes with the purchase.
If it is a driver that comes with the system, it may be a bit troublesome to delete it (if you are unfamiliar, don't delete it indiscriminately, otherwise you may not be able to enter the operating system). If the driver is added by the user himself, just delete the oem*. The inf(* is a number) file is placed in the system disk C:\windows\inf directory.
If you delete usb*. Inf file, the newly inserted USB device may not be recognized, and there will be a prompt to install USB device driver. If the installed USB device needs to uninstall the mismatched driver, you can uninstall the previously installed USB driver by using the software USB Device Needs, so that you can update the matched driver by plugging in the device.