Windows 7 plug and play printer install

[Rockyh]

I just finished updating a printer driver for Windows 7. It installs fine if
I "add printer" manually, but when I try the Plug And Play, Windows 7 pops up
a balloon that says "new hardware found", and tells me it is looking for the
driver for the device, and then it says it can't find the driver.

The hardware wizard never prompts me for the location of the driver files.
As far as I can tell, it only looks at the Windows update site for the
driver. How do I get Windows 7 to prompt me to specify where the driver INF
and files are located?

[Mike [MSFT]]

Where are the driver files located? Win 7 (and Vista) will only install
drivers from the driver store or Windows Update. On Vista there was a
wizard to ask users if they wanted to import a driver for the new device to
the driver store. On Win 7 you need to import the driver to the driver
store explicitly. This would likely be done with a setup.exe for a released
driver, or during driver development using Device Manager or pnputil.exe
from an elevated command prompt.

-Mike

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