| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | boot critical driver | 启动关键驱动程序 (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) |
| comp., MS | business driver | 业务驱动因素 (A brief statement that defines clearly and specifically the desired business outcomes of the organization along with the necessary activities to reach them) |
| comp., MS | class driver | 类驱动器 (An intermediate driver that provides a simple interface between a minidriver and the operating system) |
| comp., MS | custom driver access | 自定义驱动程序访问 (Device IO Control to 3rd party driver, a form of restricted device interface access for privileged apps) |
| comp., MS | data source driver | 数据源驱动程序 (A program file used to connect to a specific database. Each database program or management system requires a different driver) |
| comp., MS | device driver | 设备驱动程序 (Software that enables hardware or peripherals (such as a printer, mouse, or keyboard) to work with your computer or mobile device) |
| comp., MS | device driver interface | 设备驱动程序接口 (A set of functions that are implemented by the operating system for use by drivers) |
| comp., MS | Device Driver Wizard | 设备驱动程序向导 (A wizard that helps a driver developer get the new driver packages up and going quickly in Visual Studio) |
| comp., MS | driver injection | 驱动程序注入 (The process of installing mass storage drivers into an offline Windows installation, such as from Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) into a restored system) |
| comp., MS | driver package | 驱动程序包 (A collection of files that comprise a driver) |
| comp., MS | Driver Project Conversion Tool | 驱动程序转换工具 (A tool to help driver developers convert their existing driver source files into Windows 8 device drivers by using Visual Studio) |
| comp., MS | driver protection list | 驱动程序保护列表 (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) |
| comp., MS | driver reflection | 驱动程序反射 (The process by which a driver file is copied to a location on the destination computer and the corresponding service is created) |
| comp., MS | driver stack | 驱动器堆栈 (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) |
| comp., MS | early-launch boot driver | 开机初期启动的驱动程序 (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) |
| comp., MS | in-box driver | 随机驱动程序 (A driver contained in the default Windows installation) |
| comp., MS | kernel-mode driver | 内核模式驱动程序 (A driver for a logical, virtual, or physical device) |
| comp., MS | layered driver | 分层驱动程序 (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) |
| comp., MS | Microsoft Windows Driver Library | Microsoft Windows 驱动程序库 (A collection of hardware device drivers for a Microsoft Windows operating system that were not included in the original Windows package) |
| comp., MS | minifilter driver | 微过滤驱动程序 (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) |
| comp., MS | monolithic driver | 单片驱动程序 (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) |
| comp., MS | network adapter driver | 网络适配器驱动程序 (A device driver that works directly with the network adapter, acting as an intermediary between the adapter and the protocol driver) |
| comp., MS | network card driver | 网卡驱动程序 (A device driver that works directly with the network card, acting as an intermediary between the card and the protocol driver) |
| comp., MS | ODBC driver | ODBC 驱动程序 (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) |
| comp., MS | out-of-box driver | 全新驱动程序 (A driver that is not included with Windows) |
| comp., MS | printer driver | 打印机驱动程序 (The device that communicates between your software program and your printer) |
| comp., MS | RsFx driver | RsFx 驱动程序 (A file-system filter driver to aid access to the data through the NTFS Streaming APIs for the filestream data type) |
| comp., MS | signed driver | 已签名的驱动程序 (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) |
| comp., MS | static virtual device driver | 静态虚拟设备驱动程序 (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) |
| comp., MS | store driver | 存储驱动程序 (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) |
| comp., MS | unsigned driver | 未签名驱动程序 (A driver that is not supported and that is not certified to work with a particular version of Windows) |
| comp., MS | Windows driver foundation | Windows 驱动程序基础 (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) |
| comp., MS | Windows Driver Kit The SDK that contains all the tools and downloads needed to build a driver for Windows | Windows 驱动程序工具包 (WDK) |
| comp., MS | Windows Driver Library | Windows 驱动程序库 (A collection of hardware device drivers for a Microsoft Windows operating system that were not included in the original Windows package) |
| comp., MS | Windows Driver Model | Windows 驱动模型 (A driver model based on the Windows NT driver model that is designed to provide a common architecture of I/O services for Windows operating systems for specific classes of drivers. These driver classes include USB and IEEE 1394 buses, audio, still-image capture, video capture, and HID-compliant devices such as USB mice, keyboards, and joysticks. Provides a model for writing kernel-mode drivers and minidrivers, and provides extensions for Plug and Play and power management) |