Yesterday I wrote a blogpost about the reason to keep your “Driver DB” and “driver packages” as clean as possible and that you do not need to import all the junk they provide in those so called “enterprise driver packages” for multiple models.
As a first tip for helping you accomplish that , we show you in this blog post how we can limit the number of *.inf files we need to import from Intel(R) Chipset Device Software . When downloading and extracting that Intel(R) Chipset Device Software package you will see that originally there are about 98 inf files present :
Now reduce the number of INF files :
Two override command switches for setup.exe from Intel(R) Chipset Device Software that will help us to reduce the *.inf files we need to import into our “Driver Package” :
-AONLY Extracts the needed INF files to install on the current system. If the install has been run once successfully, ‘-AONLY’ will not return any INFs when used in conjunction with ‘-OVERALL’ switch, all the needed INFs for the system will be extracted.
-P <Installation Path> Specifies the hard disk location to which the INF program files are copied. If this flag is not specified at the command line, the <Installation Path> directory is as follows: C:\Program Files\Intel\INFInst .
If this flag is used without the ‘-A’ option, only the Readme will be copied to <Installation Path>. The directory name can include spaces, but then a pair of double quotes (") must enclose the directory name. There should not be any space between the switch ‘-p’ and the directory name. This flag works in either Silent Mode or Interactive Mode.
Lets execute on the local brand/model that contains an intel chipset :
Setup.exe –AONLY –p C:\temp\chipset
The result of running the setup with those parameters:
And then the result after running the tool on your local brand/model , you will see that the number of *.inf files are reduced to five (5) items ! isn’t that great ? Now copy those drivers to your regular driver import process and you reduced the number of bloat in your ConfigMgr driver database by 80% at least !
Hope it Helps ,
Kenny Buntinx
MVP enterprise Client Management