Is it possible to disable the automatic smart card minidriver installation for a specific smart card hardware ID in Windows?

Question

I have a .NET application that uses WinSCard directly to communicate to a proprietary application on a smart card.

When a card is first inserted, Windows notifies the user it is searching for drivers and fails, which I would like to avoid.

I would rather not author a minidriver for my smart card because I have already written a managed library that performs all of the heavy lifting through WinSCard. Is there a way to tell Windows not to install a driver for that particular device?

Answer 1

我对它的了解不够，无法准确告诉您该怎么做，但是您需要安装一个没有关联驱动程序的 INF 文件（即您说的是“我正在处理此设备”）

Answer 2

@Paul-Betts is absolutely right and I spent some time trying to workout how to install a SmartCard Mini Driver for MIFARE DESFire cards as I was using PCSC directly and a card driver just wasn't required.

In the end I found a useful article that provided a Utility that would allow you to register specific cards against the null mini driver.

• WINDOWS 7 COMPLAINS ON MISSING DRIVER FOR SMARTCARDS – A PRACTICAL WORKAROUND

The provided files come with the source and two batch files

• pcsc_no_minidriver_memory.cmd disables every memory card (ATR constructed according to PC/SC v.2 specification for memory cards)
• pcsc_no_minidriver_well_known.cmd disables some well-known contactless cards that do not have a minidriver (NXP Desfire, NXP Mifare Plus, various Calypso cards, …)

It does come with a warning though;

Of course, use this software and the related scripts with care and make sure you really do understand what it does , as it may prevent your system to work correctly with your 20$-cryptographic card that do need its minidriver to work with CryptoAPI.

Answer 3

Try this to disable smart card Plug and Play in local Group Policy

1. On a client computer, click Start , type gpedit.msc in the Search programs and files box, and then press Enter.

2. In the console tree under Computer Configuration , click Administrative Templates .

3. In the details pane, double-click Windows Components , and then double-click Smart Card .

4. Right-click Turn on Smart Card Plug and Play service , and then click Edit.

5. Click Disabled , and then click OK.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd979547(v=ws.10).aspx