Install video card and sound drivers only without control panel/contro

[Wolverine25]

I am looking for a way to customize driver installations so that only the dirvers are installed and not the customized application that comes with many of them.

Like I would like to install NVIDIA video card driver only without the NVIDIA service and control panel. I also want to do so for ATI video cards where only the driver is installed and not the Catalyst Control Center. I do not even want the ATI service installed which still installs anyway even if you select to not install the CCC during installation. Also I want to be able to install Realtek AC97 and HD audio drivers without the Realtek sound.aduio manager software installing with it.

Basically, I want to install the sound and video card drivers just so the drivers only are installed and Windows Device Manager recognizes the device for what it is and nothing else at all is installed kind of like when Windows has its own driver built in for video card and sound cards that are older then the current version of Windows.

I am looking to do this for both Windows XP/2003 64-bit and Windows Vista/7 64-bit.

I have looked everywhere online for information about how to modify the inf files to do it, but have not found anything able to help me.

Does anyone have any suggestions or links to download drivers only that won;t install the associated application/services with it for ATI/NVIDIA video cards and Realtek sound controllers?

I would like to integrate drivers into Windows XP/2003 64-bit like this, but I assume if I can get the right inf files and driver files that would install the drivers only for these devices and nothing else, I could easily do that with nlite. As it stands right now, even nlite installs the bloated software and noit the driver only if you integrate using the the default ATI/NVIDIA/Realtek driver installation files.

Help greatly appreciated.

[Sp0iLedBrAt]

You could try nLite, but it will still be tricky for nVidia. I'm guessing you will have to find some kind of modded driver without the control panel. It's likely that references to the control panel are written in the .inf file(s). As for ATI, it's very easy, because you can download an individual driver package without CCC from their website. See this http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/integratedip-xp

[chrisoborski]

I have an Ati video card and when i've just installed the driver what i did was use universal extractor the extract the setup.exe. Then go to the extracted setup.exe folder until i found the "driver" folder.From there i just ran the setup.exe for the driver from that folder. But if your trying to run an install without the driver .exe's like ati2evxx.exe

I would look at how microsoft makes there inf file. I have an Ati Radeon 7200 and i like the default drivers that microsoft provides for windows xp. Microsoft drivers for my Radeon don't have any of the exe's and have less dll's for the card. The drivers that are loaded by microsoft are some of the same filenames but lower versions and the bare bones minimum no exe's. Instead of 8 dll's Ms installs about 3 or 4.

I would look in the inf file for the answer as to how they get by with no exe's. Im actually not home at the moment cause if i was i would be able to compare the inf files by Ati and microsoft for you. I'm sure there's a way to rewrite the inf file by Ati.

Also i just downloaded catalyst control center and extracted the driver folder from the control center and Ati uses install shield setup if that helps.

Heres what i found also http://www.appdeploy.com/tips/detail.asp?id=18

Heres Universal Extractor http://legroom.net/software/uniextract

Ati uses a 7zip package for the main exe and i think you might be able to rename the Setup.exe to setup.7z and open that with winrar if possible.

Heres where i got catalyst Control Center https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/6-11-pre-r300_xp-2k_dd_ccc_wdm_38185.exe

Or http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

There setup.exe is named 6-11-pre-r300_xp-2k_dd_ccc_wdm_38185.exe extract it and compare the inf's with the inf's provided by microsoft. If that helps

I hoped i helped somewhat

Ill compare the inf's myself when im home in about a day and get back to you...

Chris O