Hello AskPerf! Blake here to discuss an internal command line tool called DriverQuery. What exactly is DriverQuery? I’m glad you asked. In a nutshell, DriverQuery is a command line tool that displays a list of all installed device drivers and their properties. Let’s check out its options and some examples. When you type “DriverQuery /?” from a command prompt, the following appears:
Now let’s take a look at some DriverQuery examples:
Show all installed device drivers which includes Module Name, Display Name, Driver Type, and Link Date
C:\>Driverquery.exe
*To display addition columns (see below), add the “/V” switch
Module Name, Display Name, Description, Driver Type, Start Mode, State, Status, Accept Stop, Accept Pause, Paged Pool, Code(bytes, BSS(by, Link Date, Path, Init(bytes
Show all installed device drivers in a list view
C:\>Driverquery.exe /fo list
Do not list the column header
C:\>Driverquery.exe /nh
Find drivers that are not signed
C:\>Driverquery.exe /si | findstr FALSE
Find drivers that are currently Running
C:\>Driverquery.exe /v |findstr Running
For most of these commands, you may want to add the “>” command redirection option to output the results to a .txt file. For example:
C:\>Driverquery.exe /v > C:\results.txt
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-Blake Morrison