Format
Windows Setup File
Summary
- Name
- Windows Setup File
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: application/inf
- PUID: x-fmt/420
- Format type
- Text (Structured)
- Description
- Windows Setup File or Installer Script.
- File extensions
-
inf - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
Setup Information File 1
- Note
- 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
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 1024
- Byte Sequence
5B(56|76)657273696F6E5D0D0A(53|73)69676E6174757265{0-1}3D{0-2}24(4368696361676F|4348494341474F)24{0-1}0D0A- Endianness
- None
Setup Information File 2
- Note
- 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
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 1024
- Byte Sequence
5B(56|76)657273696F6E5D0D0A(53|73)69676E6174757265{0-3}3D{0-1}2224(57494E444F5753|57696E646F7773)204E5424220D0A- Endianness
- None
Setup Information File 3
- Note
- 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
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 1024
- Byte Sequence
5B(56|76)657273696F6E5D0D0A(53|73)69676E6174757265{0-3}3D{0-1}2224(57494E444F5753|57696E646F7773)20393524220D0A- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V49
- Release date
- 5 April 2011
Windows Setup File: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.