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Windows User Mode Driver Manager: WDFMGR.EXE
What does this do?
I've never noticed it running
in the task manager until today¿
Microsoft’s User Mode Driver Manager service. At the time of writin
this service gets installed on Windows XP when you either instal
Windows Media Player 10, or when you upgrade to Service Pack 2 fo
Windows XP. Introduced in September 2004. This service is part of th
new device driver strategy from Microsoft for Windows 2000/XP/2003 an
future versions of Windows : this strategy, the Windows Drive
Foundation (WDF), aims to make it significantly simpler to writ
drivers for tomorrow’s Windows environments which hopefully will lea
to higher quality and more reliable drivers; it also aims to ensur
that, in future, buggy or badly written drivers will not have th
detrimental or catastrophic effects that they have nowadays (freezes
instability, Windows not booting up, illegal operations, etc..);
finally, the new strategy also aims to ensure that many more driver
will be installable without the PC needing to be logged in a
“Administrator” or with “Administrator” privileges. Starting wit
Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Media Player 10, Microsoft i
adding the WDF framework to Windows 2000/XP/2003 to enable periphera
manufacturers to start producing WDF drivers
