How to terminate a driver?

Download Process Explorer:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilitie...sExplorer.html
and see if it shows TRUCRYPT as a running process when the program itself is not
loaded. If it does, use Process Explorer to kill it.

I suggest you contact the author of the program about the problem. This does not
appear to be a Win98 shutdown problem, but rather an issue with the TRUCRYPT driver
resisting being closed at shutdown.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
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"Peabody" wrote in message
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I just wanted to add that System Information shows a Kernal Driver
named TRUCRYPT, which it says is type 4.1, but "loaded by" is
"unknown".

So I guess I need to find a way to terminate this kernal driver.


"Peabody" wrote in message
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I've been using TrueCrypt 1.0 on my Win98SE system, and it works
fine, except that if I run TrueCrypt, my system hangs on both
Shutdown and Restart in DOS mode. But it will Restart.

I believe this problem is caused by TrueCrypt leaving its driver
installed and running even after the program has been terminated.
The docs confirm that it does that.

TrueCrypt is an on-the-fly encryption program that mounts encrypted
container files as new partitions, and I assume that is the source
of the problem. But it occurs even if no container has been mounted
at all - just running TrueCrypt will cause it.

So, I wonder if there is a way to manually terminate such a driver,
assuming I could find out what it is, so that I could then shut down
properly. Is there a utility that will do that?

Any other suggestions?

It appears that 98 shutdown problems, like the poor, will always be
with us.

In that case, Process Explorer *probably* won't help, as it does not show those VxD
files that load with Windows. However, since the problem is only occurring if the
Trucrypt app has been run in that Windows session (if I am reading you right), then
perhaps Process Explorer will show something that is starting with Trucrypt, and
then not closing when you close the app. Let's see what it shows.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
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"Peabody" wrote in message
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glee says...

Download Process Explorer:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilitie...sExplorer.html
and see if it shows TRUCRYPT as a running process when
the program itself is not loaded. If it does, use
Process Explorer to kill it.

I suggest you contact the author of the program about
the problem. This does not appear to be a Win98
shutdown problem, but rather an issue with the TRUCRYPT
driver resisting being closed at shutdown.

Thanks very much, Glen.

When TrueCrypt is installed, the file truecrypt.vxd is
placed in the Windows/System/IOSUBSYS folder. It appears
that everything in that folder is loaded by Windows when it
boots up - because System Information shows TRUCRYPT as a
kernal driver so long as that vxd is in that folder. But it
is only when truecrypt.exe is run later, apparently
activating the driver in some way, that the shutdown problem
arises.

This is definitely a TC problem, but this version is no
longer supported by the authors, nor is TC supported at all
now for 98SE. But this version still works, except for this
problem, and in the freeware realm, this is the only
encryption software that produces containers compatible on
both 98 and XP versions. So I need to make it work on my
own if I can, and that would have to be by way of some
general purpose utility.

I will try Process Explorer. Thanks again.

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:40:13 -0500, Peabody
put finger to keyboard and composed:

glee says...

In that case, Process Explorer *probably* won't help, as
it does not show those VxD files that load with Windows.
However, since the problem is only occurring if the
Trucrypt app has been run in that Windows session (if I
am reading you right), then perhaps Process Explorer
will show something that is starting with Trucrypt, and
then not closing when you close the app. Let's see what
it shows.

When I run TrueCrypt, a single line for that appears in the
upper window of PE. The lower window shows various DLLs
that it appears to have used.

When I shut down TrueCrypt, the line in the upper window
goes away. I don't know how you would tell if it left one
of the DLLs open.

Well, this was good shot, but no cigar, I guess. Still
looking for a way to unload a device driver. I think that's
what it's gonna take, unless I can find the source code. It
is open source, but the source for this version is no longer
on the sourceforge site.

Anyway, thanks for your help.

What about trying tlist.exe and/or kill.exe from the Windows 98
Resource Kit?

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Services/Tec...nose/TLIST.EXE
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Services/Tec...gnose/KILL.EXE

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