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Details for: Windows Setup File

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Signatures
External signatures File extension: inf
Internal signatures
Name Setup Information File 1
Description ASCII: [Version]..Signature="$CHICAGO$". By convention, the Version section appears first in INF files, although this is not always the case in practice. Every Windows INF file must have this section. This version of the inf file can appear in all Windows operating systems
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Maximum Offset 1024
Byte order  
Value 5B(56|76)657273696F6E5D0D0A(53|73)69676E6174757265{0-1}3D{0-2}24(4368696361676F|4348494341474F)24{0-1}0D0A
Name Setup Information File 2
Description ASCII: [Version]..Signature="$WINDOWS NT$". By convention, the Version section appears first in INF files, although this is not always the case in practice. Every Windows INF file must have this section. This version of the inf file can appear in all Windows NT based operating systems
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Maximum Offset 1024
Byte order  
Value 5B(56|76)657273696F6E5D0D0A(53|73)69676E6174757265{0-3}3D{0-1}2224(57494E444F5753|57696E646F7773)204E5424220D0A
Name Setup Information File 3
Description ASCII: [Version]..Signature="$Windows 95$". By convention, the Version section appears first in INF files, although this is not always the case in practice. Every Windows INF file must have this section. This version of the inf file can appear in all Windows 9x/ME operating systems
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Maximum Offset 1024
Byte order  
Value 5B(56|76)657273696F6E5D0D0A(53|73)69676E6174757265{0-3}3D{0-1}2224(57494E444F5753|57696E646F7773)20393524220D0A
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