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Backport of .NET 2.0 - 3.5 to Windows 9x
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ndphlpr.vxd thoughts #27

Closed yincrash closed 7 months ago

yincrash commented 7 months ago

A good mystery is always too alluring to try and solve.

NDP stands for .NET Development Platform. HLPR stands for "helper".

I would then guess that the driver is there to give .NET access to the kernel and hardware.

No idea what the request code and response from the YT video is for, but if I were to guess, since it's on startup, it's a check to see what version of the .vxd is installed to know what features the current version has access to.