How to statically identify sys files on which an application depends?
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To help with the migration of applications off of legacy operating systems (e.g. XP) I need to identify driver (sys) files on which an application relies in order to run. This needs to be done by inspecting an existing system with the application installed, without running the installer and without running the application. Although not a perfect solution, an attempt has been made to identify out-of-box drivers (drivers added since installation of the operating system) since this will narrow the number of sys files to be considered. DISM API can return the Inbox status of a driver, but this requires Windows 7 and above. So far a reliable solution has proved evasive on XP. It's possible that querying of NTFS timestamp metadata (e.g. Changed) will help identify sys files that have been added to the file system si