> You want to look into something called "Windows Platform Binary Table" [1].

Is this how various motherboard manufacturers are embedding their system control software? I was helping a family friend with some computer issues and we could not figure out where the `armoury-crate` (asus software for controlling RGB leds on motherboard :() program kept coming from

That most likely comes from Windows Update though. It now has the ability to download "drivers". It actually had said ability for a long time (back from Vista days if I remember right) but back then it was only downloading the .inf file and associated .sys files/etc, where as nowadays it actually downloads and runs the full vendor bloatware.

Likely so. I think that’s actually the intended use of this “feature”