Wpdmtphw.inf [upd] - Microsoft Driver

: If you are using a Windows "N" or "KN" edition, these versions often lack the essential media components needed for MTP. You can download the Media Feature Pack directly from the Official Microsoft Site .

This means that whether you plug in a flagship Samsung Galaxy, an old school Nikon DSLR, or a generic Chinese MP4 player, they all knock on the same door: wpdmtphw.inf . Microsoft baked the intelligence into Windows so that the hardware manufacturers didn't have to. This file is the reason we threw away those driver CDs twenty years ago and never looked back. microsoft driver wpdmtphw.inf

The corresponding driver binary files (like WpdMtpDr.dll , WpdMtpUs.dll ) reside in: : If you are using a Windows "N"