I just downloaded the SIW System Information tool from gtopala.com and I was looking around in it.

I came to drivers and noticed I had quite a few drivers that were loaded (ACTIVE) that I really didn't need. Sr.sys (System Restore Driver) and Srv.sys (another System Restore Driver).

I have completely disabled System Restore in services and it shows that the service is NOT running. However, the driver is still loaded into the system. I could possibly reduce my bootup time even further (I think) if i can prevent it from loading these drivers, but I do not know how to change the settings.

In SIW, "Sr" is listed as:

Type: FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVER
Status: ACTIVE
Start: BOOT_START

"Srv" is listed the same, except "Start" is set to "DEMAND_START" and it is also "Active".

The "start" configuration is the one I'm trying to change. I want to change this to "Disable", but I do not know how to get to the setting. Like I've said, I've disabled system restore in services.msc, but the driver is still loaded.

I appreciate any info anyone can provide. I have a few other drivers I've noticed I don't need that's loaded as well. Getting rid of them could help some.

Thanks,

EneergE


Edit: I found Sr.sys and Srv.sys in regedit and there are a few keys with them, but they are not strings, so I wouldn't know how to edit. Here's the info:

Sr.sys:
0
Data: 52 04 28 0a 01 00 05 00 00 00 28 0a 01 00 05 00

1
Data: 57 a3 72 1d 8e 92 8f ce 2a ec ca b2 4b 1e 0f 2d

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Nls\MUILanguages\RCV2\sr.sys