Windows 7 - Adding drivers to the INF folder

Add drivers to driver store in windows

Creating a win 7 image.
Have some drivers I wanted to add to the driver store.
Can not just paste them into %SystemRoot%\INF because Windows deletes it.

How can you add it?

use PNPUTIL.exe which is included as part of win7.
example : pnputil /a c:lenovo\NICDriver.inf  would add a nic driver.

What if you have many drivers??

That is kind of not fun if you need to add the drivers for 5 different models.
You can place them in one directory, and then use this script  that Alexander Stein placed on github.
Thanks Alexander!
https://gist.github.com/ajstein/1021553
note: you are going to get unsigned driver warnings and will have to OK them.
There is a way to sign the drivers if you would like, but I didn't really look into that since I only had a few to do.

@ECHO OFF

 

IF "%1" == "" GOTO ERROR

 

ECHO.

ECHO Checking dir %1 recursively for drivers. 

ECHO.

 

FOR /F "tokens=*" %%D IN ('DIR /B /AD /S %1') DO PNPUTIL -a "%%D\*.inf" 2>&1 >> %WinDir%\system32\driverimport.log

 

GOTO EOF

 

:ERROR

ECHO Missing argument! Must include QUOTED directory path!

ECHO %0 "C:\path\to\driver\folder\"

 

:EOF