How to Install Non-Hardware Device Driver - Win10

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I have software-only device driver I compiled from the Windows WDK samples (simgpio.sys). How do I install this? All the instructions I've found are for hardware drivers.

UPDATE 7/2/20
I made partial progress. If I Ctrl-RtClick on the INF file, there is a menu item "Install". This seems to work: "The operation completed successfully". It still doesn't show up in DeviceManager, maybe because it has no associated hardware (?)..

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Run cmd.exe as administrator and enter the following commands.

Create driver service

sc create YOUR_SERVICE_NAME binpath= "YOUR_DRIVER_PATH_NAME" type=kernel start=demand

Start driver service

sc start YOUR_SERVICE_NAME

Stop driver service

sc stop YOUR_SERVICE_NAME

Delete driver service

sc delete YOUR_SERVICE_NAME