Driver Verifier in Windows Vista

Updated: February 9, 2009

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Driver Verifier is a tool for monitoring Windows kernel-mode drivers and graphics drivers. Microsoft strongly encourages hardware manufacturers to test their drivers with Driver Verifier to ensure that drivers are not making illegal function calls or causing system corruption. This paper describes new tests and features added to the Windows Vista version of Driver Verifier.

Included in this white paper:

• Enabling Driver Verifier and Changing Settings without Rebooting

• Enhanced Low Resources Simulation

• Force Pending I/O Requests

• Security Checks

• More Thorough I/O Verification

• Enhanced IRQL Checking

• Miscellaneous Checks

• Locked Memory Page Tracking

• Additional Automatic Checks

More Information

• Driver Verifier overview (including how to access Driver Verifier)

• Driver Verifier on other versions of Windows