Story: Windows Vista's new security features
Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 5 October 2005, 2:20 PM)
Quote: "For example, all printer drivers write to the kernel, requiring a reboot"
I have worked with Windows systems for a number of years. Whilst I admit that my knowledge of the 9x codebase is now sketchy at best (as I stopped using it years ago!) I can not ever recall having to reboot to use a printer driver on the NT codebase. AFAIK, the only time this could possibly happen is if a vendor created a service that had to be initialized at boot time. I have never seen this type of service used for printer drivers. Whilst I concede I may be wrong, perhaps the author would like to provide examples of printer drivers on NT/2K/XP that require reboot before use.
Sadly, I fear that certain parties will leap on this as gospel truth since they are so desperate to believe it...
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