MTX

I don't wish to bring up a dead thread, so I am only replying here because it was bumped recently and this directly relates to a feature request that I made some months ago and which nuhi hasn't implemented yet (or never will) because it requires patching an inf file. I assume he would rather leave it in one piece. The feature in question is separation of the Still Image Class Installer from Windows Image Acquisition, which are both installed by the inf for the Still Image Class. Personally I removed WIA with nLite, edited the inf myself and installed it, and this same process also works for the problem here (whether or not you edited the inf). Walkthrough: 1. Get from the original CD the following files: sti.dll sti.pnf sti_ci.dll sti.inf (also any other dependencies of your version's sti.inf, but my patched version doesn't have any others so if yours does you should find them out yourself). 2. Execute the following commands: copy sti.dll %systemroot%\system32 copy sti_ci.dll %systemroot%\system32 copy sti.inf %systemroot%\inf copy sti.pnf %systemroot%\inf rundll32 setupapi,SetupDiInstallClassEx %systemroot%\inf\sti.inf 3. Done. Remember, don't remove Windows Image Acquisition in the future if you don't want to have to do this again. Hope this was some use. --MTX Edit: Another post reminded me that the reason why I wanted this in the first place was to be able to have the Still Image Class present without running Shell Hardware Detection service, which is a dependency for Windows Image Acquisition.