| English | French |
| boot critical driver | pilote critique de démarrage (A driver that must be available in order for the operating system to successfully complete the boot process. Boot critical drivers include all boot start drivers) |
| business driver | axe stratégique (A condition or phenomenon that has the potential to impact a business either positively or negatively) |
| class driver | pilote de classe (An intermediate driver that provides a simple interface between a minidriver and the operating system) |
| custom driver access | accès au pilote personnalisé (Device IO Control to 3rd party driver, a form of restricted device interface access for privileged apps) |
| data source driver | pilote de source de données (A program file used to connect to a specific database. Each database program or management system requires a different driver) |
| device driver | pilote de périphérique (Software that enables hardware or peripherals (such as a printer, mouse, or keyboard) to work with your computer or mobile device) |
| device driver interface | interface de pilote de périphérique (A set of functions that are implemented by the operating system for use by drivers) |
| Device Driver Wizard | Assistant Pilote de périphérique (A wizard that helps a driver developer get the new driver packages up and going quickly in Visual Studio) |
| driver injection | inclusion de pilote (The process of installing mass storage drivers into an offline Windows installation, such as from Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) into a restored system) |
| driver package | package de pilotes (A collection of files that comprise a driver) |
| Driver Project Conversion Tool | Outil de conversion de pilote (A tool to help driver developers convert their existing driver source files into Windows 8 device drivers by using Visual Studio) |
| driver protection list | liste de protection des pilotes (A list of drivers known to cause instabilities when installed under Microsoft Windows XP and later versions. The list is checked at the following times: during installation of Windows; each time the system is rebooted; each time a device or application is installed) |
| driver reflection | intégration du pilote (The process by which a driver file is copied to a location on the destination computer and the corresponding service is created) |
| driver stack | pile de pilotes (A device object that forwards input/output request objects (IRPs) to other device objects. Stacking always occurs from the bottom up and is taken down from the top) |
| Early Launch Antimalware driver | pilote du logiciel anti-programme malveillant à lancement anticipé (An antimalware driver that loads early in the boot process, to evaluate the safety of the other drivers being loaded. Based on a comparison against historical data for those drivers, the antimalware driver returns information to the kernel, which makes initialization decisions for each driver) |
| early-launch boot driver | pilote de démarrage à lancement anticipé (An antimalware driver that loads early in the boot process, to evaluate the safety of the other drivers being loaded. Based on a comparison against historical data for those drivers, the antimalware driver returns information to the kernel, which makes initialization decisions for each driver) |
| ELAM driver | logiciel anti-programme malveillant à lancement anticipé (An antimalware driver that loads early in the boot process, to evaluate the safety of the other drivers being loaded. Based on a comparison against historical data for those drivers, the antimalware driver returns information to the kernel, which makes initialization decisions for each driver) |
| in-box driver | pilote fourni avec Windows (A driver contained in the default Windows installation) |
| kernel-mode driver | pilote en mode noyau (A driver for a logical, virtual, or physical device) |
| layered driver | pilote en couche (One of a collection of drivers that responds to the same IRPs. Layered driver describes the highest-level and lowest-level drivers in a chain of layered drivers that process the same IRPs, along with all intermediate drivers in the chain) |
| Microsoft JDBC Driver v4.0 for SQL Server | Microsoft JDBC Driver v4.0 pour SQL Server (A Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) 4.0 compliant driver that provides robust data access to Microsoft SQL Server databases) |
| minifilter driver | pilote de minifiltre (A driver used by anti-malware software, backup agents, and encryption products to intercept requests that are targeted at a file system, or another file system driver, before the request reaches its intended destination) |
| monolithic driver | pilote monolithique (A driver that is structured to handle all storage command processing from the driver class to the host bus attachment, residing in the code path either alongside Microsoft-supplied monolithic drivers, or alongside a Microsoft-supplied port driver and vendor-supplied miniport drivers) |
| network adapter driver | pilote de carte réseau (A device driver that works directly with the network adapter, acting as an intermediary between the adapter and the protocol driver) |
| network card driver | pilote de carte réseau (A device driver that works directly with the network card, acting as an intermediary between the card and the protocol driver) |
| ODBC driver | pilote ODBC (A program file used to connect to a particular database. Each database program, such as Access or dBASE, or database management system, such as SQL Server, requires a different driver) |
| printer driver | pilote d'imprimante (The device that communicates between your software program and your printer) |
| RsFx driver | pilote RsFx (A file-system filter driver to aid access to the data through the NTFS Streaming APIs for the filestream data type) |
| signed driver | pilote signé (A driver that meets the criteria of the Windows Logo Program. For performance and stability, Microsoft strongly recommends that you use only signed drivers for new or updated drivers) |
| static virtual device driver | pilote de périphérique virtuel statique (A virtual device driver (VxD) that is statically loaded during system startup. A static VxD can be loaded in a number of different ways, including device enumeration by the Plug and Play (PnP)static device enumerator) |
| store driver | pilote de banque d'informations (A software component of the Hub Transport Server that delivers inbound messages to Exchange stores, the databases that contain public folder and mailbox stores. The store driver is also responsible for retrieving messages from a user's outbox and submitting it for delivery) |
| unsigned driver | pilote non signé (A driver that is not supported and that is not certified to work with a particular version of Windows) |
| watchdog driver | pilote de surveillance (A hardware device that monitors system health and functionality by communicating with the system software. The communication is through a dedicated device driver or device timer) |
| Windows driver foundation | Windows Driver Foundation (A framework that provides prewritten support for the requirements of Windows driver model (WDM), giving Microsoft Windows device-driver developers the ability to better focus on their device models. The driver framework reduces the amount of new code required to provide a full-featured WDM device driver) |
| Windows Driver Library | Microsoft Windows Driver Library (A collection of hardware device drivers for a Microsoft Windows operating system that were not included in the original Windows package) |
